Universal Honey Pot

Universal Honey Pot is a powerful and user-friendly WordPress plugin that provides a plug-and-play solution for protecting your forms against unwanted …

v6.0.0Ludwig YouUpdated Added 1k+ installs74% rating
40
Score
23
Errors
94
Warnings
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Category Scores

Security0
Repo88
Performance100
Maintainability82

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

117 findings

Security

82

7 issue groups

Maintainability

31

7 issue groups

Repo Compliance

3

3 issue groups

I18n

1

1 issue group

WARNINGSecurityMissing nonce verificationProcessing form data without nonce verification.43
Category
Security
Occurrences
43
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed global variableGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$comming_soon".17
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
17
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_POST['_wpnonce'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar16
Category
Security
Occurrences
16
Severity
warning

Sample message

$_POST['_wpnonce'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar

ERRORSecurityUnsafe printing functionAll output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.13
Category
Security
Occurrences
13
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed functionFunctions declared in the global namespace by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "activate_universal_honey_pot".8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$uniq_id'.4
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 '$uniq_id'.

WARNINGSecurityInput is not validatedDetected usage of a possibly undefined superglobal array index: $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']. Check that the array index exists before using it.4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGI18nDiscouraged text-domain loadingload_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.1
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.

ERRORMaintainabilitydate datedate() is affected by runtime timezone changes which can cause date/time to be incorrectly displayed. Use gmdate() instead.1
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.

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WARNINGMaintainabilityerror log error log1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecuritywp redirect wp redirect1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

wp_redirect() found. Using wp_safe_redirect(), along with the "allowed_redirect_hosts" 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.

WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitized1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_POST['universal_honey_pot_use_user_behaviour']

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().

ERRORMaintainabilityrand rand1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

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.

WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings no short description present1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

The "Short Description" section is missing. An excerpt was generated from your main plugin description.

WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings too many tags1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

One or more tags were ignored. Please limit your plugin to 5 tags.

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