Report - MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.69

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.8.2 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-12-15 11:01:08 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: 61.75 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	5.8.2
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=d002243d81
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.772 s
Memory usage	3.08 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.220 s
Memory usage	3.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.214 s
Memory usage	2.99 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.376 s	0.319 s	-0.057 s	3.08 MiB	3.18 MiB	+ 98.58 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.215 s	0.219 s	+0.004 s	3.11 MiB	3.21 MiB	+ 98.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.977 s	1.127 s	+0.150 s	5.27 MiB	5.37 MiB	+ 102.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.426 s	0.359 s	-0.067 s	3.03 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 33.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.155 s	0.148 s	-0.007 s	3.02 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 17.11 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.428 s	0.212 s	-0.216 s	3.01 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 33.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.186 s	0.326 s	+0.140 s	3.04 MiB	3.07 MiB	+ 34.2 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.939 s	0.983 s	+0.044 s	5.26 MiB	5.35 MiB	+ 98.52 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.238 s	0.235 s	-0.003 s	3 MiB	3.04 MiB	+ 33.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.217 s	0.209 s	-0.008 s	3.04 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 97.16 KiB
/	0.262 s	0.208 s	-0.054 s	2.96 MiB	2.99 MiB	+ 32.11 KiB
Average	0.402 s	0.395 s	-0.007 s	3.44 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 61.75 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	98.8%	6,248	74	46
	SVG	1.2%	73	1	1
Total			6,321	75	47

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,915
Total complexity	1,462
Median class complexity	25.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVFW
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	43
Methods	526
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 4.69