Wordfence Security 7.8.0

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 6.1.1 and PHP 8.1.12? 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: 560.07 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.097 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.1.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
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Pages 11

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=236bd3ee92
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.128 s
Memory usage 3.68 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 0.898 s
Memory usage 3.83 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 0.515 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.418 s
Memory usage 3.73 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 0.572 s
Memory usage 3.77 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 0.396 s
Memory usage 3.79 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 0.475 s
Memory usage 4.24 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 0.273 s
Memory usage 3.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Install

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Install
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceInstall
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.233 s
Memory usage 3.54 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 0.239 s
Memory usage 3.38 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 0.365 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.316 s0.525 s+0.209 s3.05 MiB3.67 MiB+ 641.66 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.192 s0.285 s+0.093 s3.07 MiB3.69 MiB+ 627.97 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.806 s1.045 s+0.239 s4.97 MiB5.53 MiB+ 572.13 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.586 s0.565 s-0.021 s2.99 MiB3.52 MiB+ 544.32 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.174 s0.241 s+0.067 s2.99 MiB3.51 MiB+ 530.94 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.276 s0.332 s+0.056 s2.97 MiB3.51 MiB+ 557.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.186 s0.277 s+0.091 s2.98 MiB3.55 MiB+ 580.58 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.633 s0.718 s+0.085 s4.96 MiB5.52 MiB+ 568.16 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.214 s0.280 s+0.066 s2.98 MiB3.51 MiB+ 544.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.214 s0.455 s+0.241 s3 MiB3.53 MiB+ 545 KiB
/0.306 s0.243 s-0.063 s2.94 MiB3.38 MiB+ 447.94 KiB
Average 0.355 s0.451 s+0.097 s3.35 MiB3.9 MiB+ 560.07 KiB

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
PHP78.7%61,6337,541344
JavaScript13.3%10,44179825
PO File6.9%5,4314,6111
CSS0.8%6005337
SVG0.2%181221
Total 78,286 13,005 428

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 38,423
Total complexity 10,337
Median class complexity 17.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wfSupportController::supportURL()
Classes 171
Methods 2,034
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