MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 4.82

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.1.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 58.63 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.1.1
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 500,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
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Pages 3

MalCare ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: MalCare ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=malcare-security%2Fmalcare.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=41f0f28033
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.458 s
Memory usage 3.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

MalCare

Page screenshot: MalCare
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.190 s
Memory usage 3.48 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 0.221 s
Memory usage 3.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.256 s0.241 s-0.015 s3.54 MiB3.58 MiB+ 37.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.166 s0.170 s+0.004 s3.57 MiB3.67 MiB+ 102.16 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.728 s0.596 s-0.132 s5.46 MiB5.5 MiB+ 42.2 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.492 s0.265 s-0.227 s3.41 MiB3.51 MiB+ 100.68 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.170 s0.134 s-0.036 s3.4 MiB3.48 MiB+ 83.16 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.230 s0.332 s+0.102 s3.38 MiB3.48 MiB+ 100.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.178 s0.219 s+0.041 s3.48 MiB3.51 MiB+ 37.76 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.625 s0.571 s-0.054 s5.46 MiB5.49 MiB+ 37.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.188 s0.188 s+0.000 s3.38 MiB3.48 MiB+ 101.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.199 s0.199 s+0.000 s3.48 MiB3.52 MiB+ 36.71 KiB
/0.286 s0.212 s-0.074 s3.46 MiB3.43 MiB- 35.41 KiB
Average 0.320 s0.284 s-0.036 s3.82 MiB3.88 MiB+ 58.63 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP99.1%8,0009857
SVG0.9%7311
Total 8,073 99 58

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 7,597
Total complexity 1,925
Median class complexity 25.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class BVFWRuleEvaluator
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 47
Methods 677
Functions 0

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.

Options wp_options 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "MalCare" Admin Menu