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Defender 5.3.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-15 21:35:11 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Defender

Defender → Recommendations

Defender → Malware Scanning

Defender → Audit Logging

Defender → Firewall

Defender → WAF

Defender → 2FA

Defender → Tools

Defender → Notifications

Defender → Settings

Defender → Tutorials

Defender → More free Plugins?

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.373 s	0.454 s	+0.081 s	3.51 MiB	4.59 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.207 s	0.196 s	-0.011 s	3.57 MiB	4.65 MiB	+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.910 s	1.110 s	+0.200 s	6.06 MiB	7.16 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.546 s	0.559 s	+0.013 s	3.52 MiB	4.53 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.211 s	0.210 s	-0.001 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.336 s	0.306 s	-0.030 s	3.49 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.190 s	0.199 s	+0.009 s	3.5 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.650 s	0.670 s	+0.020 s	6.05 MiB	7.14 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.441 s	0.457 s	+0.016 s	3.5 MiB	4.51 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.207 s	0.202 s	-0.005 s	3.52 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/	0.301 s	0.201 s	-0.100 s	3.43 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 982.66 KiB
Average	0.397 s	0.415 s	+0.017 s	3.97 MiB	5.01 MiB	+ 1.04 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	71.4%	69,024	30,933	423
	JavaScript	25.6%	24,704	690	34
	Markdown	1.1%	1,017	0	9
	SVG	0.7%	704	4	17
	C	0.7%	668	25	1
	CSS	0.2%	185	5	10
	PO File	0.1%	135	121	1
	JSON	0.1%	103	0	3
	XML	0.1%	62	0	1
	m4	0.0%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.0%	8	12	1
Total			96,642	31,790	501

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

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 9

• wp_defender_antibot
• wp_defender_audit_log
• wp_defender_email_log
• wp_defender_lockout
• wp_defender_lockout_log
• wp_defender_quarantine
• wp_defender_scan
• wp_defender_scan_item
• wp_defender_unlockout

Options wp_options 7

• action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
• defender_free_install_date
• hardener_settings
• wd_db_version
• wd_show_feature_antibot_protection_mode
• wpmudev_notices
• wpmudev_recommended_plugins_registered

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
scheduled-action	Scheduled Actions

PHP Error Log 11 lines

[15-Jul-2025 21:35:30 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:32 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:33 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:36 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:38 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:40 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85
[15-Jul-2025 21:35:41 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  version_compare(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($version2) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/defender-security/src/component/security-tweaks/class-php-version.php on line 85

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