MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 5.45

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.4.3 and PHP 8.1.12? 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: 26.23 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 version6.4.3
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 400,000+
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=e588633bc9
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.545 s
Memory usage 3.33 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 0.197 s
Memory usage 3.31 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 0.186 s
Memory usage 3.31 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.340 s0.323 s-0.017 s3.38 MiB3.42 MiB+ 35.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.196 s0.197 s+0.001 s3.41 MiB3.44 MiB+ 35.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.863 s0.599 s-0.264 s5.46 MiB5.5 MiB+ 39.77 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.523 s0.443 s-0.080 s3.32 MiB3.34 MiB+ 17.68 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.217 s0.180 s-0.037 s3.32 MiB3.33 MiB+ 10.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.287 s0.242 s-0.045 s3.3 MiB3.33 MiB+ 29.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.195 s0.188 s-0.007 s3.31 MiB3.35 MiB+ 35.04 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.553 s0.587 s+0.034 s5.45 MiB5.49 MiB+ 39.35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.207 s0.234 s+0.027 s3.3 MiB3.32 MiB+ 18.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.226 s0.195 s-0.031 s3.34 MiB3.35 MiB+ 17.72 KiB
/0.298 s0.173 s-0.125 s3.31 MiB3.32 MiB+ 9.85 KiB
Average 0.355 s0.306 s-0.049 s3.72 MiB3.74 MiB+ 26.23 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%11,01911869
SVG0.9%9912
Total 11,118 119 71

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,592
Total complexity 2,585
Median class complexity 23.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class MCProtectFW_V545
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 51
Methods 701
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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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