Report - MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.62

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 2021-06-20 08:48:55 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: 73.05 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=f65b48b7a2
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.979 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	0.255 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	0.345 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	0.795 s	0.412 s	-0.383 s	2.82 MiB	2.86 MiB	+ 38.58 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.284 s	0.335 s	+0.051 s	2.86 MiB	2.96 MiB	+ 102.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.276 s	0.978 s	-0.298 s	5.02 MiB	5.14 MiB	+ 115.24 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.388 s	0.682 s	+0.294 s	2.7 MiB	2.79 MiB	+ 97.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.220 s	0.282 s	+0.062 s	2.71 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 65.11 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.260 s	0.316 s	+0.056 s	2.67 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 97.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.219 s	0.242 s	+0.023 s	2.77 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 34.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.928 s	0.909 s	-0.019 s	5.01 MiB	5.11 MiB	+ 106.83 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.302 s	0.318 s	+0.016 s	2.67 MiB	2.77 MiB	+ 97.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.341 s	0.338 s	-0.003 s	2.78 MiB	2.81 MiB	+ 33.16 KiB
/	0.701 s	0.261 s	-0.440 s	2.65 MiB	2.67 MiB	+ 15.77 KiB
Average	0.519 s	0.461 s	-0.058 s	3.15 MiB	3.22 MiB	+ 73.05 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%	6,009	73	46
	SVG	2.0%	122	0	6
Total			6,131	73	52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,676
Total complexity	1,410
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVFW
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	43
Methods	510
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 4.62