Authorsy is a powerful WordPress author box plugin. Add customizable author profiles, multiple authors, guest authors, bios, social links, and post ra …
81
Score
1
Errors
20
Warnings
+0
Change
Category Scores
Security70
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability94
Issues to Review
Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan
Security
13
2 issue groups
Maintainability
5
4 issue groups
Repo Compliance
2
2 issue groups
I18n
1
1 issue group
WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_COOKIE['authorsy_' . $post_id] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar9
- Category
- Security
- Occurrences
- 9
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
$_COOKIE['authorsy_' . $post_id] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar
WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_COOKIE['authorsy_' . $post_id]4
- Category
- Security
- Occurrences
- 4
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_COOKIE['authorsy_' . $post_id]
WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed hook nameHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "insert_authorsy_author_meta".2
- Category
- Maintainability
- Occurrences
- 2
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "insert_authorsy_author_meta".
WARNINGI18nDiscouraged text-domain loadingload_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.1
- 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.
ERRORMaintainabilitystrip tags strip tagsstrip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.1
- Category
- Maintainability
- Occurrences
- 1
- Severity
- error
Sample message
strip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.
WARNINGMaintainabilityMissing VersionResource version not set in call to wp_register_style(). This means new versions of the style may not always be loaded due to browser caching.1
- Category
- Maintainability
- Occurrences
- 1
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
Resource version not set in call to wp_register_style(). This means new versions of the style may not always be loaded due to browser caching.
WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin namePlugin name "Authorsy – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Post Rating" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Authorsy".1
- Category
- Maintainability
- Occurrences
- 1
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
Plugin name "Authorsy – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Post Rating" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Authorsy".
WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings too many tagsOne or more tags were ignored. Please limit your plugin to 5 tags.1
- Category
- Repo Compliance
- Occurrences
- 1
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
One or more tags were ignored. Please limit your plugin to 5 tags.
WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings trimmed short descriptionThe "Short Description" section is too long and was truncated. A maximum of 150 characters is supported.1
- Category
- Repo Compliance
- Occurrences
- 1
- Severity
- warning
Sample message
The "Short Description" section is too long and was truncated. A maximum of 150 characters is supported.
External Connections
Potential connections found in static code analysis.
Outbound calls
20
External assets
0
Incoming endpoints
0
Notable Domains
apselo.com2 · outbound
webpack.js.org2 · outbound
developer.mozilla.org1 · outbound
evil.com1 · outbound
google.com1 · outbound
nodejs.org1 · outbound
Platform / Reference Domains
External Asset Domains
No external asset domains detected.
Incoming Endpoints
No public endpoints detected.
Score History
2 score snapshots
v1.0.8
81
Latest
- Findings
- 21
- Errors
- 1
- Warnings
- 20
- Check
- 2.0.0
v1.0.7
81
Score
- Findings
- 22
- Errors
- 2
- Warnings
- 20
- Check
- 2.0.0
| Scan | Score | Findings | Errors | Warnings | Plugin | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest | 81 | 21 | 1 | 20 | v1.0.8 | 2.0.0 |
| 81 | 22 | 2 | 20 | v1.0.7 | 2.0.0 |
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