Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

Clean database by deleting orphaned data such as 'revisions', 'expired transients', optimize database and more...

v4.1.1Younes JFR.Updated 2026-06-01Added Sep 18, 2015100k+ installs98% rating100% support resolved
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164
Errors
439
Warnings
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Category Scores

Security0
Repo100
Performance100
Maintainability27

Top Issues by Category

security318
maintainability277
i18n2

Issues Details

603 issues found in latest scan

WARNING134
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared

Use placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found interpolated variable $col at "SELECT $col FROM $tbl WHERE $idCol IN ($ids_placeholder)"

WARNING117
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

WARNING115
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching

Direct database call without caching detected. Consider using wp_cache_get() / wp_cache_set() or wp_cache_delete().

ERROR90
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared

Use placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found $check_sql

ERROR36
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter

Unescaped parameter $postmeta used in $wpdb->get_var()\n$postmeta assigned unsafely at line 582.

WARNING35
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter

Unescaped parameter $quoted used in $wpdb->get_results()\n$quoted assigned unsafely at line 394.

WARNING8
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.ReplacementsWrongNumber

Incorrect number of replacements passed to $wpdb->prepare(). Found 1 replacement parameters, expected 2.

WARNING7
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare

Replacement variables found, but no valid placeholders found in the query.

ERROR7
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date

date() is affected by runtime timezone changes which can cause date/time to be incorrectly displayed. Use gmdate() instead.

ERROR6
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fclose().

ERROR6
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fwrite

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fwrite().

WARNING4
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key

Detected usage of meta_key, possible slow query.

WARNING4
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound

Global constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "FS_CHMOD_DIR".

ERROR4
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$phrase1'.

WARNING3
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.SchemaChange

Attempting a database schema change is discouraged.

ERROR3
wp_function_not_compatible_with_requires_wp

Function "wp_autoload_values_to_autoload()" requires WordPress 6.6.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 5.0.0.

WARNING2
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "plugin_locale".

WARNING2
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNING2
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_rmdir

File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: rmdir().

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.rename_rename

rename() is discouraged. Use WP_Filesystem::move() to rename a file.

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink

unlink() is discouraged. Use wp_delete_file() to delete a file.

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain

Missing $domain parameter in function call to __().

WARNING2
update_modification_detected

Plugin Updater detected. Detected code which may be altering WordPress update routines. Detected: _site_transient_update_core

Latest Snapshot

Findings

603

Errors

164

Warnings

439

Score History

First score snapshot

First scan completed Jun 19, 2026

v4.1.1 · Plugin Check 2.0.0 · Model 2026.06-mvp-static-v2

Jun 19, 2026

v4.1.1

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Findings
603
Errors
164
Warnings
439
Plugin Check
2.0.0
Model
2026.06-mvp-static-v2

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