Wordfence Security 7.5.9

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.9.3 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: 4.17 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.121 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.9.3
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=86cea5d8f5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 7.847 s
Memory usage 11.83 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 0.985 s
Memory usage 7.8 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 0.634 s
Memory usage 8.36 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 0.711 s
Memory usage 7.67 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 0.630 s
Memory usage 7.72 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 0.444 s
Memory usage 7.69 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 0.844 s
Memory usage 8.32 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 0.304 s
Memory usage 7.55 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 0.432 s
Memory usage 7.31 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 0.321 s
Memory usage 7.52 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.343 s0.461 s+0.118 s3.37 MiB7.52 MiB+ 4.15 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.182 s0.247 s+0.065 s3.4 MiB7.61 MiB+ 4.21 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.813 s1.315 s+0.502 s5.65 MiB9.81 MiB+ 4.16 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.358 s0.739 s+0.381 s3.25 MiB7.46 MiB+ 4.21 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.258 s0.221 s-0.037 s3.24 MiB7.44 MiB+ 4.2 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.267 s0.260 s-0.007 s3.23 MiB7.44 MiB+ 4.22 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.178 s0.238 s+0.060 s3.27 MiB7.47 MiB+ 4.21 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.640 s0.675 s+0.035 s5.65 MiB9.8 MiB+ 4.15 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.236 s0.480 s+0.244 s3.22 MiB7.44 MiB+ 4.22 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.295 s0.269 s-0.026 s3.27 MiB7.47 MiB+ 4.2 MiB
/0.263 s0.259 s-0.004 s3.4 MiB7.31 MiB+ 3.91 MiB
Average 0.348 s0.469 s+0.121 s3.72 MiB7.89 MiB+ 4.17 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%60,9527,600332
JavaScript13.3%10,25780024
PO File6.9%5,3314,7441
CSS0.8%6005337
SVG0.2%181221
Total 77,321 13,199 415

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 37,560
Total complexity 10,062
Median class complexity 18.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wfSupportController::supportURL()
Classes 158
Methods 1,915
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