Solid Security Basic 9.4.3

Does Solid Security Basic work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1.28 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.184 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 800,000+
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=6d34aaea6f
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.453 s
Memory usage 5.01 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security

Page screenshot: Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.802 s
Memory usage 7.68 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 0.725 s
Memory usage 7.54 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 0.227 s
Memory usage 5.17 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.381 s1.007 s+0.626 s3.78 MiB4.99 MiB+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.345 s0.738 s+0.393 s3.78 MiB5 MiB+ 1.22 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.833 s1.070 s+0.237 s6.31 MiB8.22 MiB+ 1.91 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.626 s0.536 s-0.090 s3.74 MiB4.88 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.308 s0.584 s+0.276 s3.71 MiB4.85 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.497 s0.375 s-0.122 s3.7 MiB4.84 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.297 s0.396 s+0.099 s3.72 MiB4.86 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.782 s1.057 s+0.275 s6.3 MiB8.2 MiB+ 1.9 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.326 s0.525 s+0.199 s3.71 MiB4.85 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.313 s0.491 s+0.178 s3.73 MiB4.87 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/0.281 s0.234 s-0.047 s4.12 MiB5.17 MiB+ 1.05 MiB
Average 0.454 s0.638 s+0.184 s4.24 MiB5.52 MiB+ 1.28 MiB

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
PHP54.0%63,34320,712614
JavaScript34.9%40,9786,706650
JSON3.7%4,309048
HTML2.5%2,91117835
Sass1.8%2,1711954
SVG1.7%1,986068
CSS0.9%1,099457
Bourne Shell0.1%147111
Python0.1%140732
YAML0.1%11602
reStructuredText0.1%971391
XML0.1%79164
make0.0%1401
Total 117,390 27,899 1,487

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 55,715
Total complexity 12,353
Median class complexity 13.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ITSEC_Lib
Most complex function ITSEC_Validator::sanitize_setting()
Classes 430
Methods 3,938
Functions 108

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 14

Options wp_options 6

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
itsec-dashboardPages
itsec-dash-cardPosts

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 21:20:44 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:20:44 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:20:55 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:20:55 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Solid Security Basic Admin Menus