Cornerstone

Enhanced content management for WordPress

v0.8.1ArchetypedUpdated Added 30k+ installs80% rating
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161
Errors
174
Warnings
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Category Scores

Security0
Repo83
Performance100
Maintainability57

Top Issues by Category

security220
i18n75
maintainability30

Issues Details

335 issues found in latest scan

WARNING72
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERROR53
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain

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

ERROR45
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped

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

WARNING34
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash

$_GET[$section_param] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar

WARNING32
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET[$section_param]

WARNING14
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERROR11
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment

A function call to __() with texts containing placeholders was found, but was not accompanied by a "translators:" comment on the line above to clarify the meaning of the placeholders.

ERROR10
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction

All output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.

WARNING7
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

ERROR7
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText

The $text parameter must be a single text string literal. Found: $_GET['page']

WARNING5
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching

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

WARNING5
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated

Detected usage of a possibly undefined superglobal array index: $_GET['page']. Check that the array index exists before using it.

ERROR4
Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions.Found

The use of function create_function() is forbidden

ERROR4
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.strip_tags_strip_tags

strip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.

ERROR3
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter

Unescaped parameter $arc_query used in $wpdb->get_results()\n$arc_query assigned unsafely at line 827.

ERROR3
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.parse_url_parse_url

parse_url() is discouraged because of inconsistency in the output across PHP versions; use wp_parse_url() instead.

ERROR3
WordPress.WP.I18n.SingleUnderscoreGetTextFunction

Found single-underscore "_()" function when double-underscore expected.

ERROR3
missing_direct_file_access_protection

PHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

ERROR2
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared

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

WARNING2
WordPress.Security.SafeRedirect.wp_redirect_wp_redirect

wp_redirect() found. Using wp_safe_redirect(), along with the "allowed_redirect_hosts" filter if needed, can help avoid any chances of malicious redirects within code. It is also important to remember to call exit() after a redirect so that no other unwanted code is executed.

ERROR2
WordPress.WP.DeprecatedFunctions.screen_iconFound

screen_icon() has been deprecated since WordPress version 3.8.0.

WARNING1
Internal.LineEndings.Mixed

File has mixed line endings; this may cause incorrect results

WARNING1
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound

load_plugin_textdomain() has been discouraged since WordPress version 4.6. When your plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, you no longer need to manually include this function call for translations under your plugin slug. WordPress will automatically load the translations for you as needed.

WARNING1
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared

Use placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found interpolated variable $post->ID at "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = $post->ID"

ERROR1
WordPress.WP.DeprecatedFunctions.get_post_to_editFound

get_post_to_edit() has been deprecated since WordPress version 3.5.0. Use get_post() instead.

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Warnings

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v0.8.1 · Plugin Check 2.0.0 · Model 2026.06-mvp-static-v2

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335
Errors
161
Warnings
174
Plugin Check
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