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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

3,599,365

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

5,736

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
43.2%
security
1,554,784
issues
32.1%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
780K
issues
4K
plugins
plugin_repo
1,156,418
issues
21.2%
general
763,065
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
64,898
issues
1.7%
performance
60,200
issues
219M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
102K
issues
4K
plugins
213M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
596K
issues
6K
plugins
202M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
138K
issues
5K
plugins
197M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
91K
issues
5K
plugins
193M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
123K
issues
4K
plugins
189M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
70K
issues
3K
plugins
174M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
88K
issues
4K
plugins
171M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
78K
issues
3K
plugins
167M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
68K
issues
3K
plugins
157M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
87K
issues
3K
plugins
156M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
65K
issues
4K
plugins
154M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
52K
issues
3K
plugins
148M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
3K
issues
3K
plugins
138M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
34K
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
551K
issues
4K
plugins
129M
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
14K
issues
3K
plugins
112M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
24K
issues
2K
plugins
110M
impact