Report - MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 6.02

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-26 10:54:44 UTC.

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: 25.53 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 version	6.8.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-05-26T10:48:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
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Pages 3

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=1031059fc9
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.588 s
Memory usage	3.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.210 s
Memory usage	3.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.178 s
Memory usage	3.45 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.359 s	0.305 s	-0.054 s	3.51 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 39.73 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.227 s	0.212 s	-0.015 s	3.57 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 39.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.833 s	0.650 s	-0.183 s	6.06 MiB	6.1 MiB	+ 43.87 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.769 s	0.498 s	-0.271 s	3.52 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 22.04 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.237 s	0.211 s	-0.026 s	3.5 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 26.04 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.266 s	0.254 s	-0.012 s	3.49 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 34.23 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.208 s	0.212 s	+0.004 s	3.5 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 44.9 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.741 s	0.629 s	-0.112 s	6.05 MiB	6.09 MiB	+ 39.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.445 s	0.273 s	-0.172 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 22.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.265 s	0.208 s	-0.057 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 22.04 KiB
/	0.326 s	0.412 s	+0.086 s	3.5 MiB	3.45 MiB	- 53.09 KiB
Average	0.425 s	0.351 s	-0.074 s	3.98 MiB	4 MiB	+ 25.53 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
	PHP	98.9%	12,917	219	82
	SVG	1.1%	140	1	7
Total			13,057	220	89

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	12,421
Total complexity	3,081
Median class complexity	22.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	MCProtectFW_V602
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	63
Methods	809
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

bv_default_secret_key
bvActivateTime
mcredirect

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 6.02