Report - MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 6.48

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 7.0.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-07-17 22:17:43 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: 35.12 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	7.0.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-08-15T07:03:00+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=faa13716f2
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.081 s
Memory usage	3.89 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

MalCare

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=malcare
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.524 s
Memory usage	3.89 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.247 s
Memory usage	4.24 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.655 s	0.831 s	+0.176 s	3.93 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 41.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.536 s	0.558 s	+0.022 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 41.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.093 s	1.903 s	-0.190 s	6.56 MiB	6.61 MiB	+ 53.6 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.710 s	0.736 s	+0.026 s	3.89 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 35.82 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.564 s	0.508 s	-0.056 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 27.48 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.598 s	0.572 s	-0.026 s	3.85 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 35.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.528 s	0.512 s	-0.016 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 40.84 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.812 s	1.397 s	-0.415 s	6.55 MiB	6.6 MiB	+ 49.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.791 s	0.684 s	-0.107 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 23.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.545 s	0.517 s	-0.028 s	3.89 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 23.71 KiB
/	0.321 s	0.202 s	-0.119 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 13.77 KiB
Average	0.832 s	0.765 s	-0.067 s	4.41 MiB	4.44 MiB	+ 35.12 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	98.6%	13,163	252	83
	SVG	1.0%	140	1	7
	JavaScript	0.4%	53	0	1
Total			13,356	253	91

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	12,638
Total complexity	3,160
Median class complexity	22.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	MCProtectFW_V648
Most complex function	MCDBCallback::process()

Classes	63
Methods	815
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

bv_default_secret_key
bvActivateTime
mcredirect

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 6.48