Wordfence Security 7.5.3

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.7.2 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: 3.85 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.105 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.7.2
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=b881bbf505
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 11.705 s
Memory usage 10.54 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 1.096 s
Memory usage 6.93 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 0.670 s
Memory usage 7.47 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 0.501 s
Memory usage 6.8 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 0.577 s
Memory usage 6.85 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 0.488 s
Memory usage 6.83 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 0.621 s
Memory usage 7.42 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 0.547 s
Memory usage 6.68 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 0.339 s
Memory usage 6.28 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 0.363 s
Memory usage 6.65 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.284 s0.637 s+0.353 s2.82 MiB6.65 MiB+ 3.83 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.186 s0.280 s+0.094 s2.86 MiB6.74 MiB+ 3.88 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.946 s1.461 s+0.515 s5.02 MiB8.98 MiB+ 3.95 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.527 s0.520 s-0.007 s2.7 MiB6.58 MiB+ 3.88 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.258 s0.215 s-0.043 s2.71 MiB6.56 MiB+ 3.85 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.215 s0.306 s+0.091 s2.67 MiB6.56 MiB+ 3.88 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.188 s0.238 s+0.050 s2.77 MiB6.6 MiB+ 3.83 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.280 s1.166 s-0.114 s5.01 MiB8.96 MiB+ 3.95 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.308 s0.426 s+0.118 s2.67 MiB6.56 MiB+ 3.88 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.219 s0.272 s+0.053 s2.78 MiB6.6 MiB+ 3.82 MiB
/0.265 s0.306 s+0.041 s2.71 MiB6.28 MiB+ 3.57 MiB
Average 0.425 s0.530 s+0.105 s3.16 MiB7.01 MiB+ 3.85 MiB

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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP78.8%59,3797,548324
JavaScript13.3%10,01379924
PO File6.9%5,1894,4391
CSS0.8%5935330
SVG0.2%172212
Total 75,346 12,841 391

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 36,470
Total complexity 9,770
Median class complexity 18.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wordfence::veryFirstAction()
Classes 157
Methods 1,803
Functions 7

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 7

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