Report - MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.58

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.7.2 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-05-13 03:52:31 UTC.

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

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment

WordPress version	5.7.2
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-01-29T13:26:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/malcare-security/
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Pages 3

MalCare ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=malcare-security%2Fmalcare.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=19b26636a0
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.762 s
Memory usage	2.82 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.229 s
Memory usage	2.76 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.280 s
Memory usage	2.67 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.280 s	0.280 s	+0.000 s	2.82 MiB	2.86 MiB	+ 39.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.193 s	0.202 s	+0.009 s	2.86 MiB	2.96 MiB	+ 103.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.005 s	0.976 s	-0.029 s	5.02 MiB	5.14 MiB	+ 116.05 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.487 s	0.292 s	-0.195 s	2.7 MiB	2.79 MiB	+ 97.94 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.243 s	0.149 s	-0.094 s	2.71 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 65.92 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.211 s	0.258 s	+0.047 s	2.67 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 98.11 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.183 s	0.248 s	+0.065 s	2.77 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 35.02 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.225 s	0.778 s	-0.447 s	5.01 MiB	5.11 MiB	+ 107.64 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.291 s	0.281 s	-0.010 s	2.67 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 98.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.219 s	0.213 s	-0.006 s	2.78 MiB	2.81 MiB	+ 33.97 KiB
/	0.281 s	0.216 s	-0.065 s	2.71 MiB	2.67 MiB	- 39.66 KiB
Average	0.420 s	0.354 s	-0.066 s	3.16 MiB	3.22 MiB	+ 68.75 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	98.0%	5,989	73	46
	SVG	2.0%	122	0	6
Total			6,111	73	52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,655
Total complexity	1,406
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVFW
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	43
Methods	509
Functions	0

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.

Options `wp_options` 3

bvActivateTime
bvSecretKey
mcredirect

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.58