Wordfence Security 7.5.8

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.9.2 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: 4.27 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.123 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.9.2
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=b4ae5a70ae
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 11.117 s
Memory usage 13.04 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 1.104 s
Memory usage 7.89 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 0.709 s
Memory usage 8.47 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 0.526 s
Memory usage 7.77 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 0.665 s
Memory usage 7.82 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 0.598 s
Memory usage 7.79 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 0.629 s
Memory usage 8.43 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 0.670 s
Memory usage 7.65 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 0.312 s
Memory usage 7.4 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 0.607 s
Memory usage 7.68 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.348 s0.521 s+0.173 s3.37 MiB7.68 MiB+ 4.31 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.192 s0.263 s+0.071 s3.4 MiB7.7 MiB+ 4.3 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.928 s1.298 s+0.370 s6.15 MiB10.4 MiB+ 4.25 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.373 s0.723 s+0.350 s3.25 MiB7.56 MiB+ 4.31 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.274 s0.248 s-0.026 s3.24 MiB7.54 MiB+ 4.29 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.279 s0.282 s+0.003 s3.23 MiB7.54 MiB+ 4.31 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.199 s0.262 s+0.063 s3.27 MiB7.57 MiB+ 4.3 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.714 s0.873 s+0.159 s6.15 MiB10.4 MiB+ 4.25 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.266 s0.382 s+0.116 s3.22 MiB7.53 MiB+ 4.31 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.215 s0.288 s+0.073 s3.27 MiB7.57 MiB+ 4.3 MiB
/0.301 s0.300 s-0.001 s3.4 MiB7.4 MiB+ 4.01 MiB
Average 0.372 s0.495 s+0.123 s3.81 MiB8.08 MiB+ 4.27 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%60,9357,596331
JavaScript13.3%10,25780024
PO File6.9%5,3254,7391
CSS0.8%6005337
SVG0.2%181221
Total 77,298 13,190 414

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 37,572
Total complexity 10,064
Median class complexity 18.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wordfence::veryFirstAction()
Classes 158
Methods 1,911
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