Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles, and Privacy

The official Gravatar plugin, featuring privacy-focused settings, easy profile updates, and customizable Gravatar Profile blocks.

v0.13.1AutomatticUpdated Added 100k+ installs100% rating0% support resolved
51
Score
38
Errors
48
Warnings
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Change

Category Scores

Security25
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability68

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

86 findings

Maintainability

61

9 issue groups

Security

19

5 issue groups

I18n

5

1 issue group

Repo Compliance

1

1 issue group

WARNINGMaintainabilityDynamic hook nameHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "self::FILTER_GRAVATAR_HOVERCARDS_MODULE_ENABLED".16
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
16
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;16
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
16
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: "$attrs".15
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
15
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$about_yourself'.8
Category
Security
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityNonce verification recommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNo PHP code foundNo 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.5
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
5
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.

ERRORMaintainabilityNot AllowedUse of heredoc syntax (<<<) is not allowed; use standard strings or inline HTML instead5
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

Use of heredoc syntax (<<<) is not allowed; use standard strings or inline HTML instead

ERRORI18nMissing Arg DomainMissing $domain parameter in function call to __().5
Category
I18n
Occurrences
5
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_POST[&#039;flush_cache_nonce&#039;]2
Category
Security
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_POST[&#039;flush_cache_nonce&#039;] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar2
Category
Security
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

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ERRORSecuritySetting is missing a sanitization callback1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Sanitization missing for register_setting().

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed hook name1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: &quot;post_{$args[&#039;id&#039;]}&quot;.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations is writable1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

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.

WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin name1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin name "Gravatar Enhanced - Avatars, Profiles, and Privacy" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Gravatar Enhanced".

ERRORRepo Complianceoutdated tested upto header1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Tested up to: 6.8 < 7.0. The "Tested up to" value in your plugin is not set to the current version of WordPress. This means your plugin will not show up in searches, as we require plugins to be compatible and documented as tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.

External Connections

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Score History

First score snapshot

v0.13.1

51

Latest

Findings
86
Errors
38
Warnings
48
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2.0.0

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