Wordfence Security 7.9.0

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: 562.25 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.094 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=0f14df525b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.270 s
Memory usage 3.67 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 0.785 s
Memory usage 3.82 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 0.490 s
Memory usage 4.27 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 0.480 s
Memory usage 3.72 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Tools

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools&subpage=diagnostics
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.592 s
Memory usage 3.86 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 0.400 s
Memory usage 3.84 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 0.558 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 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.6 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 0.223 s
Memory usage 3.53 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 0.243 s
Memory usage 3.39 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 0.333 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.php0.573 s0.493 s-0.080 s3.05 MiB3.67 MiB+ 643.96 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.175 s0.271 s+0.096 s3.07 MiB3.69 MiB+ 630.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.706 s1.296 s+0.590 s4.97 MiB5.53 MiB+ 574.43 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.638 s0.546 s-0.092 s2.99 MiB3.53 MiB+ 546.62 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.162 s0.233 s+0.071 s2.99 MiB3.51 MiB+ 533.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.246 s0.328 s+0.082 s2.97 MiB3.51 MiB+ 560.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.165 s0.268 s+0.103 s2.98 MiB3.55 MiB+ 582.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.568 s0.653 s+0.085 s4.96 MiB5.52 MiB+ 570.46 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.203 s0.337 s+0.134 s2.98 MiB3.51 MiB+ 546.46 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.199 s0.286 s+0.087 s3 MiB3.54 MiB+ 547.3 KiB
/0.268 s0.222 s-0.046 s2.94 MiB3.38 MiB+ 448.95 KiB
Average 0.355 s0.448 s+0.094 s3.35 MiB3.9 MiB+ 562.25 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
PHP78.9%62,4407,543352
JavaScript13.2%10,45481225
PO File6.9%5,4494,6241
CSS0.8%6025339
SVG0.2%181221
Total 79,126 13,034 438

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 38,876
Total complexity 10,479
Median class complexity 17.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wfSupportController::supportURL()
Classes 177
Methods 2,098
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