Wordfence Security 7.4.4

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.3.2 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
1JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 3.42 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.100 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.3.2
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
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Pages 10

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wordfence%2Fwordfence.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=dc3cc6fcb4
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 10.974 s
Memory usage 10.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence

Page screenshot: Wordfence
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.120 s
Memory usage 7.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Firewall

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Firewall
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceWAF
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.996 s
Memory usage 7.82 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Scan

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Scan
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceScan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.728 s
Memory usage 7.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Tools

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.791 s
Memory usage 7.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Login Security

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Login Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WFLS
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.796 s
Memory usage 7.29 MiB
JS errors
[
    {
        "message": "ReferenceError: WFAD is not defined\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=WFLS:591:5)\n    at i (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-position,jquery-ui-core&ver=5.3.2:2:27362)\n    at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-position,jquery-ui-core&ver=5.3.2:2:28121)\n    at Function.ready (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-position,jquery-ui-core&ver=5.3.2:2:29914)\n    at HTMLDocument.J (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-position,jquery-ui-core&ver=5.3.2:2:30276)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
Resource errors None

Wordfence → All Options

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → All Options
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceOptions
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.123 s
Memory usage 7.71 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Help

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Help
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceSupport
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.406 s
Memory usage 7.08 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.298 s
Memory usage 6.52 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.289 s
Memory usage 7.06 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.304 s0.442 s+0.138 s3.61 MiB7.06 MiB+ 3.45 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.215 s0.287 s+0.072 s3.64 MiB7.09 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.161 s1.599 s+0.438 s5.36 MiB8.85 MiB+ 3.49 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.467 s0.542 s+0.075 s3.48 MiB6.91 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.278 s0.210 s-0.068 s3.56 MiB6.91 MiB+ 3.35 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.308 s0.245 s-0.063 s3.46 MiB6.9 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.198 s0.242 s+0.044 s3.56 MiB7 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.033 s1.376 s+0.343 s5.35 MiB8.83 MiB+ 3.48 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.319 s0.382 s+0.063 s3.46 MiB6.9 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.208 s0.260 s+0.052 s3.57 MiB7 MiB+ 3.44 MiB
/0.329 s0.331 s+0.002 s3.32 MiB6.53 MiB+ 3.21 MiB
Average 0.438 s0.538 s+0.100 s3.85 MiB7.27 MiB+ 3.42 MiB

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 21

Options wp_options 6

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wordfence_activity_report_widget": {
            "title": "Wordfence activity in the past week",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 3

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Wordfence Security Admin Menus and Widgets