iThemes Security 8.1.7

Does iThemes Security work with WordPress 6.3.1 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: 972.22 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.072 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.3.1
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=654a7ff061
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.017 s
Memory usage 3.76 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 1.057 s
Memory usage 6.23 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 0.331 s
Memory usage 3.6 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 0.327 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.708 s0.508 s-0.200 s2.82 MiB3.7 MiB+ 895.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.203 s0.401 s+0.198 s2.85 MiB3.78 MiB+ 956.63 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.753 s0.915 s+0.162 s5.21 MiB6.51 MiB+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.523 s0.484 s-0.039 s2.77 MiB3.63 MiB+ 884.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.282 s0.296 s+0.014 s2.76 MiB3.61 MiB+ 870.09 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.459 s0.586 s+0.127 s2.74 MiB3.61 MiB+ 889.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.187 s0.310 s+0.123 s2.76 MiB3.65 MiB+ 914.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.586 s0.691 s+0.105 s5.21 MiB6.5 MiB+ 1.29 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.203 s0.358 s+0.155 s2.75 MiB3.63 MiB+ 899.34 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.231 s0.384 s+0.153 s2.78 MiB3.66 MiB+ 898.58 KiB
/0.324 s0.313 s-0.011 s3.13 MiB3.95 MiB+ 840.47 KiB
Average 0.405 s0.477 s+0.072 s3.25 MiB4.2 MiB+ 972.22 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
PHP58.7%53,20916,927541
JavaScript28.6%25,8823,606348
Sass5.1%4,5771692
JSON4.5%4,060044
HTML1.2%1,097025
CSS1.2%1,044467
SVG0.5%415131
Python0.2%140732
reStructuredText0.1%971391
Markdown0.1%6603
XML0.0%2402
Total 90,611 20,808 1,096

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,249
Total complexity 10,642
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 3,371
Functions 96

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-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:45 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[29-Aug-2023 17:42:47 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