Stars Testimonials — Responsive Reviews & Star Ratings

Testimonials & reviews WordPress plugin for your website. Display responsive website testimonials and customer reviews with ease ⭐

v3.3.5PremioUpdated Added 1k+ installs96% rating100% support resolved
35
Score
29
Errors
253
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo100
Performance100
Maintainability50

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

282 findings

Maintainability

214

13 issue groups

Security

66

6 issue groups

I18n

2

2 issue groups

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Variable FoundGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$Star_testimonials_form_review_box".157
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
157
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRecommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.46
Category
Security
Occurrences
46
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNot In FooterIn 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.13
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
13
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.

WARNINGMaintainabilityMissing VersionResource 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.11
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
11
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.

ERRORMaintainabilitywp function not compatible with requires wpFunction "is_php_version_compatible()" requires WordPress 5.2.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 4.7.0.8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

Function "is_php_version_compatible()" requires WordPress 5.2.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 4.7.0.

ERRORSecurityNot PreparedUse placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found $query7
Category
Security
Occurrences
7
Severity
error

Sample message

Use placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found $query

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Constant FoundGlobal constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "DB_TESTIMONIAL_TABLE_NAME".7
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
7
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitydate datedate() is affected by runtime timezone changes which can cause date/time to be incorrectly displayed. Use gmdate() instead.6
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityMissing Unslash$_GET['task'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar5
Category
Security
Occurrences
5
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityInput Not SanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_REQUEST['testimonial_categories']4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_REQUEST['testimonial_categories']

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ERRORMaintainabilityNon Enqueued Stylesheet4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

Stylesheets must be registered/enqueued via wp_enqueue_style()

WARNINGSecurityInput Not Validated3
Category
Security
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityslow db query tax query2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of tax_query, possible slow query.

ERRORMaintainabilityrand rand2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

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.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Class Found1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Function Found1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Hookname Found1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityOutput Not Escaped1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nLoad plugin textdomain Param2Found1
Category
I18n
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

The parameter """" at position #2 of load_plugin_textdomain() has been deprecated since WordPress version 2.7.0. Use "" instead.

WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin name1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin name "Stars Testimonials — Responsive Reviews & Star Ratings" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Stars Testimonials".

Score History

First score snapshot

v3.3.5

35

Latest

Findings
282
Errors
29
Warnings
253
Check
2.0.0

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