MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 5.56

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.6 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: 39.89 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.023 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.6
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
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=9ca7b6cfb6
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.546 s
Memory usage 3.49 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 0.207 s
Memory usage 3.49 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 0.180 s
Memory usage 3.41 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.319 s0.293 s-0.026 s3.47 MiB3.51 MiB+ 35.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.204 s0.184 s-0.020 s3.54 MiB3.57 MiB+ 35.43 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.702 s0.796 s+0.094 s5.75 MiB5.79 MiB+ 40.08 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.557 s0.459 s-0.098 s3.49 MiB3.51 MiB+ 18.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.406 s0.188 s-0.218 s3.41 MiB3.49 MiB+ 80.84 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.223 s0.259 s+0.036 s3.4 MiB3.49 MiB+ 94.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.192 s0.178 s-0.014 s3.47 MiB3.51 MiB+ 40.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.558 s0.947 s+0.389 s5.75 MiB5.78 MiB+ 35.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.262 s0.426 s+0.164 s3.41 MiB3.49 MiB+ 82.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.209 s0.247 s+0.038 s3.49 MiB3.51 MiB+ 18.02 KiB
/0.298 s0.203 s-0.095 s3.45 MiB3.41 MiB- 42.6 KiB
Average 0.357 s0.380 s+0.023 s3.88 MiB3.91 MiB+ 39.89 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%11,29411869
SVG0.9%10314
Total 11,397 119 73

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,852
Total complexity 2,660
Median class complexity 23.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class MCProtectFW_V556
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 51
Methods 715
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