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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

3,420,076

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5,333

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
43.1%
security
1,473,502
issues
32.3%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
744K
issues
4K
plugins
plugin_repo
1,105,358
issues
21.1%
general
722,295
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
62,221
issues
1.7%
performance
56,700
issues
219M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
99K
issues
4K
plugins
213M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
558K
issues
5K
plugins
202M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
131K
issues
5K
plugins
197M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
86K
issues
4K
plugins
193M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
117K
issues
4K
plugins
189M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
67K
issues
3K
plugins
174M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
85K
issues
3K
plugins
171M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
74K
issues
3K
plugins
167M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
64K
issues
3K
plugins
156M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
84K
issues
3K
plugins
156M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
62K
issues
4K
plugins
154M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
49K
issues
3K
plugins
148M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
2K
issues
2K
plugins
138M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
33K
issues
2K
plugins
136M
impact
16
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
6K
issues
3K
plugins
133M
impact
17
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
521K
issues
3K
plugins
128M
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
3K
issues
3K
plugins
124M
impact
19
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
13K
issues
3K
plugins
112M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
23K
issues
2K
plugins
110M
impact