Wordfence Security 7.5.4

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.8 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: 3.89 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.064 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.8
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=441d403f34
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 9.133 s
Memory usage 10.81 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 1.085 s
Memory usage 7.26 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 0.810 s
Memory usage 7.8 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 0.558 s
Memory usage 7.14 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 0.631 s
Memory usage 7.18 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 0.505 s
Memory usage 7.16 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 0.815 s
Memory usage 7.76 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 0.472 s
Memory usage 7.01 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 0.289 s
Memory usage 6.62 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 0.361 s
Memory usage 7.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.293 s0.495 s+0.202 s3.08 MiB7.05 MiB+ 3.96 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.192 s0.278 s+0.086 s3.11 MiB7.07 MiB+ 3.96 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.897 s1.262 s+0.365 s5.27 MiB9.17 MiB+ 3.91 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.784 s0.687 s-0.097 s3.03 MiB6.92 MiB+ 3.89 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.220 s0.198 s-0.022 s3.02 MiB6.9 MiB+ 3.88 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.508 s0.259 s-0.249 s3.01 MiB6.91 MiB+ 3.9 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.270 s0.237 s-0.033 s3.04 MiB6.93 MiB+ 3.9 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.283 s1.198 s-0.085 s5.26 MiB9.16 MiB+ 3.91 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.319 s0.514 s+0.195 s3 MiB6.9 MiB+ 3.9 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.218 s0.580 s+0.362 s3.04 MiB6.93 MiB+ 3.89 MiB
/0.295 s0.277 s-0.018 s2.96 MiB6.62 MiB+ 3.67 MiB
Average 0.480 s0.544 s+0.064 s3.44 MiB7.32 MiB+ 3.89 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%59,3807,548324
JavaScript13.3%10,01379924
PO File6.9%5,1894,4391
CSS0.8%5935330
SVG0.2%172212
Total 75,347 12,841 391

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 36,471
Total complexity 9,769
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