Heroic Favicon Generator

Heroic Favicon Generator is your one-click favicon generator for WordPress.

v1.7.1HeroThemesUpdated Added 6k+ installs100% rating
41
Score
104
Errors
7
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security20
Repo89
Performance100
Maintainability33

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

111 findings

Maintainability

60

21 issue groups

Security

32

2 issue groups

I18n

15

2 issue groups

ERRORSecurityOutput Not EscapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$HexColorString'.29
Category
Security
Occurrences
29
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nText Domain MismatchMismatched text domain. Expected 'favhero-favicon-generator' but got 'ht-ultimate-favicon'.14
Category
I18n
Occurrences
14
Severity
error

Sample message

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'favhero-favicon-generator' but got 'ht-ultimate-favicon'.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fcloseFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fclose().10
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
10
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl setoptUsing cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

Using cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fopenFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fopen().6
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fwriteFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fwrite().6
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityUnsafe Printing FunctionAll output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.3
Category
Security
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations freadFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fread().3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fsockopenFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: fsockopen().3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations is writableFile operations should use WP_Filesystem methods instead of direct PHP filesystem calls. Found: is_writable().3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

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ERRORMaintainabilitystrip tags strip tags3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitymissing direct file access protection3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations chmod2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityunlink unlink2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

unlink() is discouraged. Use wp_delete_file() to delete a file.

WARNINGMaintainabilityMissing Version2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Resource version not set in call to wp_enqueue_script(). This means new versions of the script may not always be loaded due to browser caching.

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.

WARNINGMaintainabilityABSPATHDetected1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Writing files using ABSPATH may be problematic. Consider using wp_upload_dir() instead if storing user data or generated files.

ERRORMaintainabilitydate date1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityprevent path disclosure phpinfo1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

phpinfo() can lead to full path disclosure.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl close1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Using cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl exec1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Using cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl init1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Using cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations mkdir1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityparse url parse url1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNot In Footer1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

In footer ($in_footer) is not set explicitly wp_enqueue_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.

Score History

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v1.7.1

41

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Findings
111
Errors
104
Warnings
7
Check
2.0.0

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