FV Antispam

FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin. It moves any spambot comments directly to trash and allows Akismet to just deal with human spam.

v2.8FolioVisionUpdated Added 900 installs74% rating
26
Score
332
Errors
239
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo83
Performance100
Maintainability20

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

571 findings

Security

316

11 issue groups

I18n

160

4 issue groups

Maintainability

79

10 issue groups

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '"<td><strong>$label:</strong></td>"'.73
Category
Security
Occurrences
73
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '"<td><strong>$label:</strong></td>"'.

WARNINGSecurityMissing nonce verificationProcessing form data without nonce verification.63
Category
Security
Occurrences
63
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERRORI18nMissing Arg DomainMissing $domain parameter in function call to __().61
Category
I18n
Occurrences
61
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nText Domain MismatchMismatched text domain. Expected 'fv-antispam' but got 'antispam_bee'.50
Category
I18n
Occurrences
50
Severity
error

Sample message

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'fv-antispam' but got 'antispam_bee'.

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.44
Category
I18n
Occurrences
44
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.

ERRORSecurityUnsafe printing functionAll output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.42
Category
Security
Occurrences
42
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_GET[&#039;ip&#039;] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar40
Category
Security
Occurrences
40
Severity
warning

Sample message

$_GET[&#039;ip&#039;] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar

WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET[&#039;ip&#039;]39
Category
Security
Occurrences
39
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET[&#039;ip&#039;]

WARNINGSecurityInput is not validatedDetected usage of a possibly undefined superglobal array index: $_POST[$protect]. Check that the array index exists before using it.28
Category
Security
Occurrences
28
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityDirect QueryUse of a direct database call is discouraged.20
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
20
Severity
warning

Sample message

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

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WARNINGMaintainabilityNo Caching20
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
20
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityNonce verification recommended13
Category
Security
Occurrences
13
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl setopt12
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
12
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityInterpolated SQL is not prepared9
Category
Security
Occurrences
9
Severity
warning

Sample message

Use placeholders and $wpdb-&gt;prepare(); found interpolated variable $comment-&gt;comment_post_ID at &quot;SELECT * FROM $wpdb-&gt;posts WHERE ID=&#039;$comment-&gt;comment_post_ID&#039; LIMIT 1&quot;

ERRORMaintainabilitydate date8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protection8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityDatabase parameter is not escaped5
Category
Security
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

Unescaped parameter $comment->comment_post_ID used in $wpdb->get_row()\n$comment->comment_post_ID used without escaping.

ERRORI18nNon Singular String Literal Text5
Category
I18n
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

The $text parameter must be a single text string literal. Found: $sQuestion

WARNINGSecurityDatabase parameter is not escaped3
Category
Security
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

Unescaped parameter $sTableName used in $wpdb-&gt;get_var()\n$sTableName assigned unsafely at line 71.

WARNINGMaintainabilityerror log var export3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

var_export() found. Debug code should not normally be used in production.

ERRORMaintainabilityrand rand3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

rand() is discouraged. Use the far less predictable wp_rand() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilityPlugin Directory Write2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

Plugin folders are deleted when upgraded. Do not save data to the plugin folder using file_put_contents(). Detected usage of __FILE__ or __DIR__ magic constant. Use wp_upload_dir() to get the uploads directory path or save to the database instead.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations fclose2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecuritywp redirect wp redirect1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

wp_redirect() found. Using wp_safe_redirect(), along with the &quot;allowed_redirect_hosts&quot; filter if needed, can help avoid any chances of malicious redirects within code. It is also important to remember to call exit() after a redirect so that no other unwanted code is executed.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl close1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

4 domains

Outbound calls

11

External assets

0

Incoming endpoints

2

Notable Domains

foliovision.com6 · outbound
ws.arin.net3 · outbound

Platform / Reference Domains

gnu.org1 · platform/reference
plugins.trac.wordpress.org1 · platform/reference

External Asset Domains

No external asset domains detected.

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Admin AJAX endpoints1
wp_ajax_fv_foliopress_ajax_pointersauthenticated

wp_ajax

Score History

First score snapshot

v2.8

26

Latest

Findings
571
Errors
332
Warnings
239
Check
2.0.0

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