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WP Counter Up – Animated Number Counter & Milestone Showcase

WP Counter Up is a lightweight, responsive, and high-performance WordPress plugin that animates numbers from zero to a target value as they scroll int …

v4.2.0LogicHuntUpdated Added 1k+ installs80% rating
Animated Countercounter upmilestone counternumber counterstats counter
51
Score
18
Errors
239
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security25
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability66

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

257 findings

Maintainability

229

11 issue groups

Security

25

4 issue groups

Repo Compliance

2

2 issue groups

I18n

1

1 issue group

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed global variableGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$base".203
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
203
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$lgx_counter_item_safe'.17
Category
Security
Occurrences
17
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscapedReference
WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed constantGlobal constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "LGX_WCU_PLUGIN_BASE".8
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Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound
WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed functionFunctions declared in the global namespace by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "activate_wp_counter_up".4
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Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedFunctionFound
WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed hook nameHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "'wsa_form_bottom_' . $form['id']".4
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Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "'wsa_form_bottom_' . $form['id']".

WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_POST['metaboxlgxmilestone']4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
WARNINGMaintainabilitytrademarked termThe plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "WP Counter Up – Animated Number Counter & Milestone Showcase" - contains the restricted term "wp" which cannot be used at all in your plugin name.3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

The plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "WP Counter Up – Animated Number Counter & Milestone Showcase" - contains the restricted term "wp" which cannot be used at all in your plugin name.

trademarked_term
WARNINGMaintainabilityslow db query tax queryDetected usage of tax_query, possible slow query.2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of tax_query, possible slow query.

WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query
WARNINGSecurityNonce verification recommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.2
Category
Security
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_GET['post_type'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar2
Category
Security
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
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WARNINGI18nDiscouraged text-domain loading1
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.

PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFoundReference
WARNINGMaintainabilityDirect Query1
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Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
WARNINGMaintainabilityNo Caching1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
WARNINGMaintainabilityNon-prefixed class1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedClassFound
WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin name1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin name "WP Counter Up – Animated Number Counter & Milestone Showcase" is different from the name declared in plugin header "WP Counter Up".

mismatched_plugin_nameReference
ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protection1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

missing_direct_file_access_protectionReference
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.

readme_parser_warnings_too_many_tags
WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings trimmed short description1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

The "Short Description" section is too long and was truncated. A maximum of 150 characters is supported.

readme_parser_warnings_trimmed_short_description

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

18 domains

Outbound calls

66

External assets

0

Incoming endpoints

2

Notable Domains

logichunt.com41 · outbound
docs.logichunt.com2 · outbound
fontawesome.io2 · outbound
daneden.me1 · outbound
demo.logichunt.com1 · outbound
fabien-d.github.com1 · outbound

Platform / Reference Domains

github.com5 · platform/reference
gnu.org2 · platform/reference
opensource.org2 · platform/reference
w3.org1 · platform/reference

External Asset Domains

No external asset domains detected.

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Admin AJAX endpoints2
wp_ajax_lgx_admin_lgx_counter_reorderauthenticated

wp_ajax

wp_ajax_save_post_reorder_for_lgx_counterauthenticated

wp_ajax

Score History

First score snapshot

v4.2.0

51

Latest

Findings
257
Errors
18
Warnings
239
Check
2.0.0

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