Acunetix WP Security 4.0.5

Does Acunetix WP Security work with WordPress 6.5.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP deprecation warnings
3Database errors
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 62.76 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.5.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 50,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-scan/
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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=wp-security-scan%2Findex.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=7bd7d25336
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.536 s
Memory usage 3.46 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security

Page screenshot: WP Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.488 s
Memory usage 3.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → Database

Page screenshot: WP Security → Database
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_database
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.233 s
Memory usage 3.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → WP Info

Page screenshot: WP Security → WP Info
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_scanner
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.198 s
Memory usage 3.48 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → WP File Scan

Page screenshot: WP Security → WP File Scan
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_wpscan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.256 s
Memory usage 3.49 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → Live traffic

Page screenshot: WP Security → Live traffic
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_live_traffic
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.260 s
Memory usage 3.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → Blog

Page screenshot: WP Security → Blog
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_blog
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.290 s
Memory usage 5.58 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → Settings

Page screenshot: WP Security → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.188 s
Memory usage 3.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Security → About

Page screenshot: WP Security → About
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wps_about
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.199 s
Memory usage 3.46 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 0.475 s
Memory usage 3.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.365 s0.383 s+0.018 s3.43 MiB3.51 MiB+ 76.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.212 s0.216 s+0.004 s3.46 MiB3.53 MiB+ 75.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.934 s0.954 s+0.020 s5.59 MiB5.67 MiB+ 80.32 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.615 s0.513 s-0.102 s3.38 MiB3.44 MiB+ 58.65 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.225 s0.223 s-0.002 s3.37 MiB3.42 MiB+ 50.61 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.302 s0.332 s+0.030 s3.35 MiB3.42 MiB+ 70.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.191 s0.211 s+0.020 s3.37 MiB3.44 MiB+ 76.01 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.543 s0.568 s+0.025 s5.58 MiB5.66 MiB+ 71.91 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.358 s0.326 s-0.032 s3.36 MiB3.41 MiB+ 59.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.264 s0.236 s-0.028 s3.39 MiB3.45 MiB+ 58.68 KiB
/0.308 s0.428 s+0.120 s3.42 MiB3.43 MiB+ 11.41 KiB
Average 0.392 s0.399 s+0.007 s3.79 MiB3.85 MiB+ 62.76 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP88.5%5,04671436
CSS7.0%397298
JavaScript4.2%240424
JSON0.3%16016
Total 5,699 785 64

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 3,876
Total complexity 644
Median class complexity 27.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WsdUtil
Most complex function WsdPlugin::activate()
Classes 15
Methods 142
Functions 26

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 4

Options wp_options 8

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[10-Apr-2024 07:00:29 UTC] WordPress database error Access denied for user 'bn_wordpress'@'%' to database 'mysql' for query SHOW GRANTS FOR 'bn_wordpress'@'127.0.0.1:3306' made by activate_plugin, do_action('activate_wp-security-scan/index.php'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, wpsNetworkActivate, _wpsSiteActivate, WsdPlugin::activate, WsdInfoServer::getDatabaseUserAccessRights
[10-Apr-2024 07:00:32 UTC] WordPress database error Access denied for user 'bn_wordpress'@'%' to database 'mysql' for query SHOW GRANTS FOR 'bn_wordpress'@'127.0.0.1:3306' made by do_action('wp-security_page_wps_database'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, WsdPlugin::pageDatabase, WsdUtil::includePage, include('/plugins/wp-security-scan/res/pages/database.php'), WsdUtil::loadTemplate, include('/plugins/wp-security-scan/res/pages/tpl/box-database-change-prefix.php'), WsdInfoServer::getDatabaseUserAccessRights
[10-Apr-2024 07:00:32 UTC] WordPress database error Access denied for user 'bn_wordpress'@'%' to database 'mysql' for query SHOW GRANTS FOR 'bn_wordpress'@'127.0.0.1:3306' made by do_action('wp-security_page_wps_scanner'), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, WsdPlugin::pageWpInfo, WsdUtil::includePage, include('/plugins/wp-security-scan/res/pages/scanner.php'), WsdUtil::loadTemplate, include('/plugins/wp-security-scan/res/pages/tpl/box-scan-results-wp.php'), WsdInfo::getDatabaseUserAccessRightsInfo, WsdInfoServer::getDatabaseUserAccessRights
[10-Apr-2024 07:00:32 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Invalid characters passed for attempted conversion, these have been ignored in /wp-content/plugins/wp-security-scan/res/pages/tpl/box-scan-results-file.php on line 68
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Acunetix WP Security Admin Menus