WP Activity Log

The #1 user-rated activity log plugin for event logging, activity monitoring and change tracking.

v5.6.4MelapressUpdated Added 300k+ installs94% rating71% support resolved
27
Score
96
Errors
230
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo100
Performance100
Maintainability10

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

326 findings

Maintainability

157

17 issue groups

Security

137

5 issue groups

I18n

19

3 issue groups

WARNINGSecurityRecommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.106
Category
Security
Occurrences
106
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Variable FoundGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$_mainwp_menu_active_slugs".67
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
67
Severity
warning

Sample message

Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$_mainwp_menu_active_slugs".

ERRORSecurityOutput Not EscapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$alert['category']'.16
Category
Security
Occurrences
16
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nText Domain MismatchMismatched text domain. Expected 'wp-security-audit-log' but got 'wsal-gravityforms'.12
Category
I18n
Occurrences
12
Severity
error

Sample message

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'wp-security-audit-log' but got 'wsal-gravityforms'.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Constant FoundGlobal constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "E_CRITICAL".11
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
11
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Hookname FoundHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "admin_print_styles".10
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
10
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fopenFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().9
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
9
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitystrip tags strip tagsstrip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.9
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
9
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityDirect QueryUse of a direct database call is discouraged.7
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
7
Severity
warning

Sample message

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNo CachingDirect database call without caching detected. Consider using wp_cache_get() / wp_cache_set() or wp_cache_delete().7
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
7
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

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ERRORSecurityException Not Escaped7
Category
Security
Occurrences
7
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '"Field ($field) should be an array, but it isn't."'.

WARNINGSecurityMissing6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fclose6
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nMissing Arg Domain6
Category
I18n
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fwrite5
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitybadly named files5
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

File and folder names must not contain spaces or special characters.

ERRORMaintainabilitywp function not compatible with requires wp5
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

Function "str_starts_with()" requires WordPress 5.9.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 5.5.0.

ERRORMaintainabilityparse url parse url4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitymissing direct file access protection4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilitytrademarked term3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

The plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "WP Activity Log" - contains the restricted term "wp" which cannot be used at all in your plugin name.

WARNINGSecurityUnescaped DBParameter2
Category
Security
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Unescaped parameter $options_table_name used in $wpdb->get_results()\n$options_table_name assigned unsafely at line 1288.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Function Found2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Functions declared in the global namespace by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "freemius_template_modification".

ERRORMaintainabilityrename rename2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityFound1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

The use of function wp_get_sidebars_widgets() is forbidden

WARNINGI18nload plugin textdomain Found1
Category
I18n
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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.

Score History

First score snapshot

v5.6.4

27

Latest

Findings
326
Errors
96
Warnings
230
Check
2.0.0

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