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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

2,766,628

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

3,839

With reported issues

Total Impact

3B

Active installations

SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
42.7%
security
1,180,560
issues
32.8%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
606K
issues
3K
plugins
plugin_repo
908,294
issues
21.1%
general
582,415
issues
1.8%
uncategorized
50,283
issues
1.6%
performance
45,076
issues
218M
impact
2
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
88K
issues
3K
plugins
212M
impact
3
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
441K
issues
4K
plugins
200M
impact
4
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
106K
issues
3K
plugins
196M
impact
5
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
70K
issues
3K
plugins
192M
impact
6
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
96K
issues
3K
plugins
188M
impact
7
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
53K
issues
2K
plugins
173M
impact
8
NonPrefixedFunctionFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
70K
issues
2K
plugins
170M
impact
9
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
58K
issues
2K
plugins
167M
impact
10
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
55K
issues
2K
plugins
156M
impact
11
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
68K
issues
2K
plugins
155M
impact
12
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
50K
issues
3K
plugins
153M
impact
13
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
41K
issues
2K
plugins
147M
impact
14
mismatched_plugin_name
WARNINGuncategorized
mismatched_plugin_name
2K
issues
2K
plugins
137M
impact
15
UnescapedDBParameter
ERRORsecurity
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter
26K
issues
2K
plugins
135M
impact
16
trademarked_term
ERRORplugin_repo
trademarked_term
4K
issues
2K
plugins
133M
impact
17
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
421K
issues
2K
plugins
127M
impact
18
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
2K
issues
2K
plugins
124M
impact
19
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
10K
issues
2K
plugins
112M
impact
20
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
19K
issues
2K
plugins
110M
impact