Report - MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 4.78

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.0.2 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-08-30 21:31:15 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: 46.15 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	6.0.2
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=07daa063de
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.507 s
Memory usage	3.72 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.336 s
Memory usage	3.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.229 s
Memory usage	3.58 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.319 s	0.239 s	-0.080 s	3.72 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 35.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.188 s	0.177 s	-0.011 s	3.76 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 100.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.784 s	0.891 s	+0.107 s	5.55 MiB	5.59 MiB	+ 44.49 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.535 s	0.333 s	-0.202 s	3.69 MiB	3.72 MiB	+ 35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.150 s	0.139 s	-0.011 s	3.62 MiB	3.7 MiB	+ 78.91 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.405 s	0.199 s	-0.206 s	3.66 MiB	3.7 MiB	+ 35.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.173 s	0.199 s	+0.026 s	3.69 MiB	3.72 MiB	+ 36.08 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.895 s	0.607 s	-0.288 s	5.54 MiB	5.58 MiB	+ 36.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.206 s	0.320 s	+0.114 s	3.6 MiB	3.7 MiB	+ 99.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.223 s	0.258 s	+0.035 s	3.7 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 35.03 KiB
/	0.271 s	0.221 s	-0.050 s	3.6 MiB	3.58 MiB	- 29.21 KiB
Average	0.377 s	0.326 s	-0.051 s	4.01 MiB	4.06 MiB	+ 46.15 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%	7,948	98	57
	SVG	0.9%	73	1	1
Total			8,021	99	58

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	7,545
Total complexity	1,901
Median class complexity	25.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVManageCallback
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	47
Methods	670
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 WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 4.78