iThemes Security 8.1.5

Does iThemes Security work with WordPress 6.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
9PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 973.33 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.111 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 900,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
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Pages 4

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=better-wp-security%2Fbetter-wp-security.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=04beb91c53
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.067 s
Memory usage 4.01 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security

Page screenshot: Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec&path=%2Fonboard%2Fsite-type
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.151 s
Memory usage 6.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security → Get More Security

Page screenshot: Security → Get More Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec-go-pro
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.332 s
Memory usage 3.86 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 0.205 s
Memory usage 3.85 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.294 s0.573 s+0.279 s3.07 MiB3.95 MiB+ 896.64 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.194 s0.385 s+0.191 s3.1 MiB4.04 MiB+ 958.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.792 s0.978 s+0.186 s5.02 MiB6.29 MiB+ 1.27 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.575 s0.436 s-0.139 s3.02 MiB3.89 MiB+ 886.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.177 s0.243 s+0.066 s3.02 MiB3.86 MiB+ 867.78 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.310 s0.338 s+0.028 s2.99 MiB3.87 MiB+ 891.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.201 s0.519 s+0.318 s3.01 MiB3.9 MiB+ 914.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.636 s0.742 s+0.106 s5.01 MiB6.28 MiB+ 1.26 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.228 s0.304 s+0.076 s3 MiB3.88 MiB+ 900.78 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.221 s0.356 s+0.135 s3.03 MiB3.91 MiB+ 900.02 KiB
/0.297 s0.275 s-0.022 s2.97 MiB3.85 MiB+ 900.64 KiB
Average 0.357 s0.468 s+0.111 s3.39 MiB4.34 MiB+ 973.33 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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP58.9%53,13416,918541
JavaScript28.3%25,5273,570345
Sass5.1%4,5771692
JSON4.5%4,047044
HTML1.2%1,097025
CSS1.2%1,044467
SVG0.5%415131
Python0.2%140732
reStructuredText0.1%971391
Markdown0.1%6603
XML0.0%2402
Total 90,168 20,763 1,093

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,174
Total complexity 10,626
Median class complexity 14.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ITSEC_Lib
Most complex function ITSEC_Validator::sanitize_setting()
Classes 370
Methods 3,368
Functions 98

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 11

Options wp_options 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
itsec-dashboardPages
itsec-dash-cardPosts

PHP Error Log 9 lines

[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Mar-2023 19:07:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Solid Security Basic Admin Menus