Report - MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 4.84

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 6.1.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-11-18 07:41:04 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: 58.63 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	6.1.1
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=78324e9056
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.700 s
Memory usage	3.5 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.208 s
Memory usage	3.48 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.299 s
Memory usage	3.43 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.326 s	0.329 s	+0.003 s	3.54 MiB	3.58 MiB	+ 37.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.181 s	0.218 s	+0.037 s	3.57 MiB	3.67 MiB	+ 102.16 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.792 s	0.979 s	+0.187 s	5.46 MiB	5.5 MiB	+ 42.2 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.337 s	0.287 s	-0.050 s	3.41 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 100.68 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.249 s	0.146 s	-0.103 s	3.4 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 83.16 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.281 s	0.213 s	-0.068 s	3.38 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 100.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.189 s	0.256 s	+0.067 s	3.48 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 37.76 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.673 s	0.646 s	-0.027 s	5.46 MiB	5.49 MiB	+ 37.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.229 s	0.207 s	-0.022 s	3.38 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 101.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.233 s	0.224 s	-0.009 s	3.48 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 36.71 KiB
/	0.288 s	0.220 s	-0.068 s	3.46 MiB	3.43 MiB	- 35.41 KiB
Average	0.343 s	0.339 s	-0.005 s	3.82 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 58.63 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%	8,095	99	57
	SVG	0.9%	73	1	1
Total			8,168	100	58

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	7,690
Total complexity	1,951
Median class complexity	25.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	BVFWRuleEvaluator
Most complex function	BVDBCallback::process()

Classes	47
Methods	683
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

User Metadata `wp_usermeta` 1

wp_persisted_preferences

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 4.84