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Defender 5.7.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 00:55:49 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Defender

Defender → Recommendations

Defender → Malware Scanning

Defender → Audit Logging

Defender → Firewall

Defender → WAF

Defender → 2FA

Defender → Tools

Defender → Notifications

Defender → Settings

Defender → More free Plugins?

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.424 s	0.495 s	+0.071 s	3.78 MiB	4.88 MiB	+ 1.11 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.353 s	0.322 s	-0.031 s	3.78 MiB	4.92 MiB	+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.870 s	1.016 s	+0.146 s	6.31 MiB	7.51 MiB	+ 1.2 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.680 s	0.474 s	-0.206 s	3.74 MiB	4.83 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.321 s	0.333 s	+0.012 s	3.71 MiB	4.77 MiB	+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.493 s	0.358 s	-0.135 s	3.7 MiB	4.76 MiB	+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.469 s	0.283 s	-0.186 s	3.72 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.669 s	0.662 s	-0.007 s	6.3 MiB	7.49 MiB	+ 1.2 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.315 s	0.407 s	+0.092 s	3.71 MiB	4.74 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.312 s	0.333 s	+0.021 s	3.73 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 1.06 MiB
/	0.287 s	0.186 s	-0.101 s	4.12 MiB	5.11 MiB	+ 1012.14 KiB
Average	0.472 s	0.443 s	-0.029 s	4.24 MiB	5.33 MiB	+ 1.09 MiB

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	72.3%	72,333	32,749	446
	JavaScript	24.8%	24,820	850	35
	Markdown	1.0%	1,031	0	9
	SVG	0.7%	700	4	17
	C	0.7%	668	25	1
	JSON	0.1%	137	0	4
	PO File	0.1%	135	121	1
	CSS	0.1%	75	1	10
	XML	0.1%	62	0	1
	m4	0.0%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.0%	8	12	1
Total			100,001	33,762	526

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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 9

• wp_defender_antibot
• wp_defender_audit_log
• wp_defender_email_log
• wp_defender_lockout
• wp_defender_lockout_log
• wp_defender_quarantine
• wp_defender_scan
• wp_defender_scan_item
• wp_defender_unlockout

Options wp_options 8

• action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
• defender_free_install_date
• defender_postponed_notice_date
• hardener_settings
• wd_db_version
• wd_show_feature_turnstile
• wpdef_antibot_global_firewall_global_notice_time
• wpmudev_notices

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
scheduled-action	Scheduled Actions

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 00:56:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:56:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:56:33 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:56:33 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

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