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Wordfence Security 8.0.5

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-04-15 16:42:31 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Wordfence

Wordfence → Firewall

Wordfence → Scan

Wordfence → Tools

Wordfence → Audit Log

Wordfence → Login Security

Wordfence → All Options

Wordfence → Help

Wordfence → Install

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.312 s	0.504 s	+0.192 s	3.51 MiB	4.28 MiB	+ 793.03 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.171 s	0.271 s	+0.100 s	3.57 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 740.04 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.709 s	1.016 s	+0.307 s	6.06 MiB	6.9 MiB	+ 857.52 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.536 s	0.799 s	+0.263 s	3.52 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 682.61 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.201 s	0.257 s	+0.056 s	3.5 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 686.72 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.274 s	0.318 s	+0.044 s	3.49 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 694.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.170 s	0.262 s	+0.092 s	3.5 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 706.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.574 s	0.628 s	+0.054 s	6.05 MiB	6.88 MiB	+ 853.8 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.275 s	0.612 s	+0.337 s	3.5 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 683.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.410 s	0.272 s	-0.138 s	3.52 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 682.88 KiB
/	0.270 s	0.198 s	-0.072 s	3.5 MiB	3.94 MiB	+ 450.23 KiB
Average	0.355 s	0.467 s	+0.112 s	3.98 MiB	4.67 MiB	+ 711.97 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	86.0%	69,899	9,246	379
	JavaScript	13.2%	10,694	804	23
	CSS	0.7%	549	53	38
	SVG	0.2%	181	2	21
Total			81,323	10,105	461

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

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 25

• wp_wfauditevents
• wp_wfblockediplog
• wp_wfblocks7
• wp_wfconfig
• wp_wfcrawlers
• wp_wffilechanges
• wp_wffilemods
• wp_wfhits
• wp_wfhoover
• wp_wfissues
• wp_wfknownfilelist
• wp_wflivetraffichuman
• wp_wflocs
• wp_wflogins
• wp_wfls_2fa_secrets
• wp_wfls_role_counts
• wp_wfls_settings
• wp_wfnotifications
• wp_wfpendingissues
• wp_wfreversecache
• wp_wfsecurityevents
• wp_wfsnipcache
• wp_wfstatus
• wp_wftrafficrates
• wp_wfwaffailures

Options wp_options 7

• wf_plugin_act_error
• wfls_last_role_change
• wordfence_case
• wordfence_installed
• wordfence_ls_version
• wordfence_version
• wordfenceActivated

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wordfence_activity_report_widget": {
            "title": "Wordfence activity in the past week",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 3

• wf2fa_activate_2fa_self
• wf2fa_activate_2fa_others
• wf2fa_manage_settings

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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