Report - MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress 4.75

Does "MalCare Security - Free Malware Scanner, Protection & Security for WordPress" work with WordPress 5.9.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-02-23 20:14:19 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: 72.04 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	5.9.1
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=c689e35970
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.691 s
Memory usage	3.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.414 s
Memory usage	3.32 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.234 s
Memory usage	3.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.405 s	0.310 s	-0.095 s	3.37 MiB	3.4 MiB	+ 36.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.190 s	0.182 s	-0.008 s	3.4 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 99.82 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.008 s	1.216 s	+0.208 s	6.14 MiB	6.18 MiB	+ 40.49 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.378 s	0.343 s	-0.035 s	3.25 MiB	3.35 MiB	+ 106.69 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.266 s	0.152 s	-0.114 s	3.24 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 90.55 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.269 s	0.205 s	-0.064 s	3.23 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 106.86 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.179 s	0.172 s	-0.007 s	3.27 MiB	3.36 MiB	+ 99.77 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.973 s	0.831 s	-0.142 s	6.14 MiB	6.17 MiB	+ 36.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.229 s	0.311 s	+0.082 s	3.22 MiB	3.33 MiB	+ 107.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.215 s	0.185 s	-0.030 s	3.27 MiB	3.37 MiB	+ 98.72 KiB
/	0.267 s	0.192 s	-0.075 s	3.4 MiB	3.37 MiB	- 30.11 KiB
Average	0.398 s	0.373 s	-0.025 s	3.81 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 72.04 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	99.1%	7,675	98	50
	SVG	0.9%	73	1	1
Total			7,748	99	51

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	7,316
Total complexity	1,831
Median class complexity	25.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVManageCallback
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	47
Methods	648
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 4.75