MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 5.65

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.6.1 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: 40.44 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 version6.6.1
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=5e5cbc15b4
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.554 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 0.216 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 0.215 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.php0.323 s0.307 s-0.016 s3.47 MiB3.51 MiB+ 36.27 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.213 s0.187 s-0.026 s3.54 MiB3.57 MiB+ 35.98 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.795 s0.606 s-0.189 s5.75 MiB5.79 MiB+ 40.63 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.707 s0.328 s-0.379 s3.49 MiB3.51 MiB+ 18.57 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.199 s0.178 s-0.021 s3.41 MiB3.49 MiB+ 81.38 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.281 s0.462 s+0.181 s3.4 MiB3.49 MiB+ 94.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.185 s0.204 s+0.019 s3.47 MiB3.51 MiB+ 41.43 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.606 s0.601 s-0.005 s5.75 MiB5.78 MiB+ 36.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.251 s0.257 s+0.006 s3.41 MiB3.49 MiB+ 83.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.225 s0.235 s+0.010 s3.49 MiB3.51 MiB+ 18.57 KiB
/0.318 s0.204 s-0.114 s3.45 MiB3.41 MiB- 42.05 KiB
Average 0.373 s0.324 s-0.049 s3.88 MiB3.91 MiB+ 40.44 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%11,54212471
SVG0.9%10314
Total 11,645 125 75

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 11,076
Total complexity 2,730
Median class complexity 26.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class MCProtectFW_V565
Most complex function BVDBCallback::process()
Classes 52
Methods 729
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