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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,974,192

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

4,330

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.8%
security
1,271,777
issues
32.7%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
650K
issues
3K
plugins
plugin_repo
972,608
issues
21.1%
general
627,019
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
53,944
issues
1.6%
performance
48,844
issues
218M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
92K
issues
3K
plugins
213M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
481K
issues
4K
plugins
201M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
114K
issues
4K
plugins
196M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
75K
issues
4K
plugins
192M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
103K
issues
3K
plugins
189M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
56K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
75K
issues
3K
plugins
171M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
62K
issues
2K
plugins
167M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
58K
issues
2K
plugins
156M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
73K
issues
3K
plugins
155M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
53K
issues
3K
plugins
153M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
43K
issues
3K
plugins
147M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
2K
issues
2K
plugins
138M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
28K
issues
2K
plugins
135M
impact
16
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
5K
issues
2K
plugins
133M
impact
17
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
455K
issues
3K
plugins
128M
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3K
issues
2K
plugins
124M
impact
19
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
11K
issues
2K
plugins
112M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
20K
issues
2K
plugins
110M
impact