iThemes Security 8.1.6

Does iThemes Security work with WordPress 6.2.2 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: 972.28 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.114 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.2.2
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=f9245ea020
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.312 s
Memory usage 4.02 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 1.085 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 0.341 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 0.252 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.php0.280 s0.315 s+0.035 s3.07 MiB3.95 MiB+ 901.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.189 s0.466 s+0.277 s3.1 MiB4.04 MiB+ 963.38 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.733 s0.942 s+0.209 s5.02 MiB6.29 MiB+ 1.27 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.547 s0.413 s-0.134 s3.02 MiB3.89 MiB+ 891.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.168 s0.242 s+0.074 s3.01 MiB3.86 MiB+ 873.09 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.307 s0.327 s+0.020 s2.99 MiB3.87 MiB+ 896.65 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.189 s0.407 s+0.218 s3.01 MiB3.9 MiB+ 920.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.588 s0.963 s+0.375 s5.01 MiB6.28 MiB+ 1.26 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.203 s0.288 s+0.085 s3 MiB3.88 MiB+ 906.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.205 s0.338 s+0.133 s3.03 MiB3.91 MiB+ 905.34 KiB
/0.309 s0.268 s-0.041 s3.03 MiB3.85 MiB+ 843.95 KiB
Average 0.338 s0.452 s+0.114 s3.39 MiB4.34 MiB+ 972.28 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%53,20016,927541
JavaScript28.3%25,5273,570345
Sass5.1%4,5771692
JSON4.5%4,059044
HTML1.2%1,097025
CSS1.2%1,044467
SVG0.5%415131
Python0.2%140732
reStructuredText0.1%971391
Markdown0.1%6603
XML0.0%2402
Total 90,246 20,772 1,093

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,240
Total complexity 10,640
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 3,370
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

[20-May-2023 06:44:21 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:21 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:21 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:24 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:24 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[20-May-2023 06:44:24 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