Wordfence Security 7.4.12

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.5.3 and PHP 7.4.8? 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: 3.53 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.107 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.5.3
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
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Pages 10

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wordfence%2Fwordfence.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=53cbe86b88
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 14.321 s
Memory usage 10.12 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence

Page screenshot: Wordfence
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.982 s
Memory usage 6.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Firewall

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Firewall
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceWAF
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.795 s
Memory usage 7.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Scan

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Scan
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceScan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.822 s
Memory usage 6.42 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Tools

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.838 s
Memory usage 6.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Login Security

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Login Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WFLS
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.861 s
Memory usage 6.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → All Options

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → All Options
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceOptions
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.969 s
Memory usage 7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Help

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Help
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceSupport
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.676 s
Memory usage 6.29 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 0.337 s
Memory usage 5.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.555 s
Memory usage 6.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.516 s0.641 s+0.125 s2.75 MiB6.25 MiB+ 3.49 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.226 s0.293 s+0.067 s2.8 MiB6.35 MiB+ 3.55 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.653 s2.209 s+0.556 s4.55 MiB8.16 MiB+ 3.62 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.679 s0.673 s-0.006 s2.63 MiB6.17 MiB+ 3.54 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.184 s0.235 s+0.051 s2.64 MiB6.16 MiB+ 3.51 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.232 s0.249 s+0.017 s2.6 MiB6.15 MiB+ 3.55 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.187 s0.261 s+0.074 s2.64 MiB6.19 MiB+ 3.55 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.522 s1.517 s-0.005 s4.53 MiB8.15 MiB+ 3.61 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.336 s0.746 s+0.410 s2.61 MiB6.15 MiB+ 3.55 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.234 s0.265 s+0.031 s2.65 MiB6.19 MiB+ 3.54 MiB
/0.383 s0.242 s-0.141 s2.56 MiB5.89 MiB+ 3.33 MiB
Average 0.559 s0.666 s+0.107 s3 MiB6.53 MiB+ 3.53 MiB

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.

Database Tables 21

Options wp_options 6

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wordfence_activity_report_widget": {
            "title": "Wordfence activity in the past week",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 3

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Wordfence Security Admin Menus and Widgets