Wordfence Security 8.0.5

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 6.8.1 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: 717.44 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.173 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
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 12

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=44080c1c9c
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.542 s
Memory usage 4.32 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 0.849 s
Memory usage 4.46 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 0.590 s
Memory usage 4.91 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 0.474 s
Memory usage 4.35 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 2.005 s
Memory usage 4.52 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Audit Log

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Audit Log
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools&subpage=auditlog
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceAuditLog
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.511 s
Memory usage 4.24 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 0.740 s
Memory usage 4.42 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 0.685 s
Memory usage 4.84 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 0.360 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.292 s
Memory usage 4.17 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 0.343 s
Memory usage 3.94 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 0.471 s
Memory usage 4.28 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.359 s0.631 s+0.272 s3.51 MiB4.28 MiB+ 792.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.206 s0.317 s+0.111 s3.57 MiB4.29 MiB+ 739.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.784 s1.090 s+0.306 s6.06 MiB6.9 MiB+ 856.88 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.589 s0.799 s+0.210 s3.52 MiB4.19 MiB+ 681.96 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.245 s0.296 s+0.051 s3.5 MiB4.17 MiB+ 686.07 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.393 s0.382 s-0.011 s3.49 MiB4.17 MiB+ 694.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.194 s0.336 s+0.142 s3.5 MiB4.19 MiB+ 705.47 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.615 s0.747 s+0.132 s6.05 MiB6.88 MiB+ 853.16 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.337 s1.101 s+0.764 s3.5 MiB4.17 MiB+ 683.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.438 s0.395 s-0.043 s3.52 MiB4.19 MiB+ 682.23 KiB
/0.303 s0.274 s-0.029 s3.43 MiB3.94 MiB+ 516.79 KiB
Average 0.406 s0.579 s+0.173 s3.97 MiB4.67 MiB+ 717.44 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
PHP86.0%69,8999,246379
JavaScript13.2%10,69480423
CSS0.7%5495338
SVG0.2%181221
Total 81,323 10,105 461

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 45,538
Total complexity 12,148
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wfConfig::_handleActionHooks()
Classes 201
Methods 2,404
Functions 8

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

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