Event Calendar Newsletter

Stop manually copying the events you’re promoting from your WordPress events calendar!

v2.17.1Event Calendar NewsletterUpdated Added 600 installs96% rating
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Score
96
Errors
167
Warnings
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Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo100
Performance100
Maintainability43

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

263 findings

Maintainability

151

13 issue groups

Security

76

8 issue groups

I18n

34

4 issue groups

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed hook nameHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "'ecn_additional_filters_settings_html-' . $_GET['event_calendar']".71
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
71
Severity
warning

Sample message

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "'ecn_additional_filters_settings_html-' . $_GET['event_calendar']".

ERRORI18nMissing Translators CommentA 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.19
Category
I18n
Occurrences
19
Severity
error

Sample message

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.

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;17
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
17
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed global variableGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$_tests_dir".16
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
16
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '"Could not find $_tests_dir/includes/functions.php, have you run bin/install-wp-tests.sh ?"'.15
Category
Security
Occurrences
15
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '"Could not find $_tests_dir/includes/functions.php, have you run bin/install-wp-tests.sh ?"'.

ERRORMaintainabilitydate datedate() is affected by runtime timezone changes which can cause date/time to be incorrectly displayed. Use gmdate() instead.14
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
14
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_GET['event_calendar'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar14
Category
Security
Occurrences
14
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed classClasses declared by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "ECNAdmin".12
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
12
Severity
warning

Sample message

Classes declared by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "ECNAdmin".

WARNINGSecurityNonce verification recommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.12
Category
Security
Occurrences
12
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET['event_calendar']11
Category
Security
Occurrences
11
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

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ERRORI18nUnordered Placeholders Text10
Category
I18n
Occurrences
10
Severity
error

Sample message

Multiple placeholders in translatable strings should be ordered. Expected "%1$s, %2$s", but got "%s, %s" in '%sLearn More About Event Calendar Newsletter Pro%s'.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed function9
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
9
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityInput is not validated8
Category
Security
Occurrences
8
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityUnsafe printing function6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityMissing nonce verification6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed constant4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityException output is not escaped4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nMissing Arg Domain4
Category
I18n
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityOffloaded Content2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

Offloading images, js, css, and other scripts to your servers or any remote service is disallowed.

ERRORMaintainabilitystrip tags strip tags2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNo PHP code found1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

No PHP code was found in this file and short open tags are not allowed by this install of PHP. This file may be using short open tags but PHP does not allow them.

WARNINGI18nDiscouraged text-domain loading1
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.

WARNINGMaintainabilityslow db query meta query1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of meta_query, possible slow query.

ERRORMaintainabilitytimezone change date default timezone set1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Using date_default_timezone_set() and similar isn't allowed, instead use WP internal timezone support.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNot In Footer1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

In footer ($in_footer) is not set explicitly wp_register_script; It is recommended to load scripts in the footer. Please set this value to `true` to load it in the footer, or explicitly `false` if it should be loaded in the header.

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

14 domains

Outbound calls

31

External assets

3

Incoming endpoints

4

Notable Domains

brianhogg.com1 · outbound
myblog.com1 · outbound
testing.com1 · outbound
ticketzone.com1 · outbound
track.bentonow.com1 · outbound

Platform / Reference Domains

wordpress.org3 · platform/reference
en-ca.wordpress.org1 · platform/reference

External Asset Domains

my.com4 · asset + outbound
i0.wp.com2 · asset + outbound
youtube.com2 · asset + outbound

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Admin AJAX endpoints4
wp_ajax_fetch_allowed_tagsauthenticated

wp_ajax

wp_ajax_fetch_eventsauthenticated

wp_ajax

wp_ajax_fetch_other_plugin_optionsauthenticated

wp_ajax

wp_ajax_goodbye_formauthenticated

wp_ajax

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