WP Notes Widget

Display important, short, time sensitive text and media in a 'sticky note' style. Auto Tweet your notes.

v1.0.6Steve PuddickUpdated Added 700 installs92% rating
34
Score
217
Errors
36
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo91
Performance98
Maintainability53

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

253 findings

Security

164

7 issue groups

Maintainability

67

11 issue groups

I18n

19

3 issue groups

Repo Compliance

2

2 issue groups

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$after_widget'.124
Category
Security
Occurrences
124
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl setoptUsing cURL functions is highly discouraged. Use wp_remote_get() instead.26
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
26
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;21
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
21
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityRequest data is not unslashed$_GET['post'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar13
Category
Security
Occurrences
13
Severity
warning

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nMissing Arg DomainMissing $domain parameter in function call to __().13
Category
I18n
Occurrences
13
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGSecurityNonce verification recommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.11
Category
Security
Occurrences
11
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERRORSecurityException output is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$method'.6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORSecurityUnsafe printing functionAll output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

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

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.4
Category
I18n
Occurrences
4
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.

ERRORSecuritySetting is missing a sanitization callbackSanitization missing for register_setting().3
Category
Security
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

Sanitization missing for register_setting().

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WARNINGSecurityInput is not sanitized3
Category
Security
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET['post']

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl exec3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl init3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGMaintainabilityDiscouraged PHP function3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

wp_reset_query() is discouraged. Use wp_reset_postdata() instead.

WARNINGMaintainabilitytrademarked term3
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
3
Severity
warning

Sample message

The plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "WP Notes Widget" - contains the restricted term "wp" which cannot be used at all in your plugin name.

ERRORMaintainabilityOffloaded Content2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

Found call to wp_enqueue_style() with external resource. Offloading styles to your servers or any remote service is disallowed.

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl errno2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORMaintainabilitycurl curl getinfo2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

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

ERRORI18nNon Singular String Literal Domain2
Category
I18n
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

The $domain parameter must be a single text string literal. Found: $this->get_widget_slug()

WARNINGMaintainabilityNo PHP code found1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
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.

ERRORMaintainabilityfile system operations readfile1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

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

WARNINGPerformancePost Not In post not in1
Category
Performance
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Using exclusionary parameters, like post__not_in, in calls to get_posts() should be done with caution, see https://wpvip.com/documentation/performance-improvements-by-removing-usage-of-post__not_in/ for more information.

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

Sample message

Tested up to: 6.1 < 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 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.

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

17 domains

Outbound calls

47

External assets

1

Incoming endpoints

0

Notable Domains

webrockstar.net5 · outbound
api.twitter.com3 · outbound
youtube.com3 · outbound
fonts2u.com2 · outbound
getbootstrap.com2 · outbound
php.net2 · outbound

Platform / Reference Domains

w3.org12 · platform/reference
github.com5 · platform/reference
wordpress.org3 · platform/reference
gnu.org1 · platform/reference
opensource.org1 · platform/reference

External Asset Domains

video.google.com2 · asset + outbound

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Score History

First score snapshot

v1.0.6

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Findings
253
Errors
217
Warnings
36
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