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Wordfence Security 8.1.0

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-30 19:48:09 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	0.376 s	0.587 s	+0.211 s	3.51 MiB	4.28 MiB	+ 791.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.210 s	0.781 s	+0.571 s	3.57 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 738.22 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.907 s	1.173 s	+0.266 s	6.06 MiB	6.9 MiB	+ 855.66 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.794 s	0.845 s	+0.051 s	3.52 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 680.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.211 s	0.798 s	+0.587 s	3.5 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 684.87 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.292 s	0.408 s	+0.116 s	3.49 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 693.04 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.190 s	0.356 s	+0.166 s	3.5 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 704.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.774 s	0.755 s	-0.019 s	6.05 MiB	6.88 MiB	+ 851.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.292 s	0.607 s	+0.315 s	3.5 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 682 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.243 s	0.468 s	+0.225 s	3.52 MiB	4.19 MiB	+ 681.02 KiB
/	0.354 s	0.276 s	-0.078 s	3.5 MiB	3.94 MiB	+ 448.38 KiB
Average	0.422 s	0.641 s	+0.219 s	3.98 MiB	4.67 MiB	+ 710.12 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%	69,981	9,262	381
	JavaScript	13.1%	10,694	804	23
	CSS	0.7%	549	53	38
	SVG	0.2%	181	2	21
Total			81,405	10,121	463

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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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