Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms

Name: Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms
Rating: 4.4
Author: Happyforms

Best WordPress contact form, newsletter form and payment form builder without the sucky stuff — lost emails, pesky spam, leaky privacy and outsourced …

v1.26.12

Happyforms

Updated 18.11.2025, 19:13:00

Scanned 19.11.2025, 16:07:40

contact-form custom-form form-builder forms wordpress-form-plugin

Score

1076

Errors

534

Warnings

20K

Installs

Security936

General471

Repo193

Performance10

Accessibility0

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1610 issues found in latest scan

	Code	Message	Location	Category
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen`	File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:25:13`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fread`	File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fread().	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:34:20`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fclose`	File operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fclose().	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:46:3`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`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.	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:202:17`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.WP.I18n.UnorderedPlaceholdersText`	Multiple placeholders in translatable strings should be ordered. Expected "%1$s, %2$s", but got "%s, %s" in '%s %s imported successfully.'.	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:202:21`	General
ERROR	`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.	`inc/classes/class-importer-xml.php:228:13`	General
ERROR	`WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound`	Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$form_controller".	`inc/templates/admin-export.php:2:5`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound`	Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$forms_".	`inc/templates/admin-export.php:3:5`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound`	Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$forms".	`inc/templates/admin-export.php:4:5`	Plugin Repo
ERROR	`WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.UnsafePrintingFunction`	All output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.	`inc/templates/admin-export.php:9:15`	Security

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Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms

Security933

General465

Plugin Repository183

Performance8

core/templates/parts/customize-checkbox.php74 issues in this fileTotal: 74Errors: 33Warnings: 41

core/templates/parts/customize-radio.php65 issues in this fileTotal: 65Errors: 30Warnings: 35

core/templates/parts/customize-select.php59 issues in this fileTotal: 59Errors: 27Warnings: 32

core/classes/class-form-admin.php52 issues in this fileTotal: 52Errors: 36Warnings: 16

core/templates/parts/customize-number.php48 issues in this fileTotal: 48Errors: 16Warnings: 32

core/templates/parts/customize-multi-line-text.php41 issues in this fileTotal: 41Errors: 15Warnings: 26

core/helpers/helper-form-templates.php33 issues in this fileTotal: 33Errors: 31Warnings: 2

core/templates/parts/customize-email.php30 issues in this fileTotal: 30Errors: 10Warnings: 20

core/templates/parts/customize-single-line-text.php30 issues in this fileTotal: 30Errors: 10Warnings: 20

core/templates/parts/customize-media.php28 issues in this fileTotal: 28Errors: 9Warnings: 19