MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 5.93

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.8 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: 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 version6.8
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
Badges

WordPress compatibility badge PHP compatibility badge

Get badge code

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=15e36d6592
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.776 s
Memory usage 3.52 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 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.52 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 0.279 s
Memory usage 3.45 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.438 s0.353 s-0.085 s3.51 MiB3.54 MiB+ 39.73 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.255 s0.231 s-0.024 s3.57 MiB3.61 MiB+ 39.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.886 s0.728 s-0.158 s6.06 MiB6.1 MiB+ 43.87 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.738 s0.422 s-0.316 s3.52 MiB3.54 MiB+ 22.04 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.236 s0.240 s+0.004 s3.5 MiB3.53 MiB+ 26.04 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.322 s0.295 s-0.027 s3.49 MiB3.52 MiB+ 34.23 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.219 s0.486 s+0.267 s3.5 MiB3.55 MiB+ 44.9 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.731 s0.774 s+0.043 s6.05 MiB6.09 MiB+ 39.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.354 s0.317 s-0.037 s3.5 MiB3.52 MiB+ 22.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.240 s0.264 s+0.024 s3.52 MiB3.54 MiB+ 22.04 KiB
/0.413 s0.268 s-0.145 s3.5 MiB3.45 MiB- 53.09 KiB
Average 0.439 s0.398 s-0.041 s3.98 MiB4 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
PHP98.9%12,91221982
SVG1.1%14017
Total 13,052 220 89

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 12,416
Total complexity 3,080
Median class complexity 22.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class MCProtectFW_V593
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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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