Report - MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall 6.65

Does "MalCare WordPress Security Plugin - Malware Scanner, Cleaner, Security Firewall" work with WordPress 7.0.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-08-15 07:27:14 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: 0.069 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	7.0.4
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=236a7259ae
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.067 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	0.684 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	0.256 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	0.634 s	0.604 s	-0.030 s	3.92 MiB	3.96 MiB	+ 41.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.554 s	0.667 s	+0.113 s	3.98 MiB	4.02 MiB	+ 41.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.207 s	2.453 s	+0.246 s	6.56 MiB	6.61 MiB	+ 53.6 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.750 s	0.716 s	-0.034 s	3.89 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 35.82 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.549 s	0.557 s	+0.008 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 27.48 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.660 s	0.923 s	+0.263 s	3.85 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 35.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.515 s	0.573 s	+0.058 s	3.86 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 40.84 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.812 s	2.180 s	+0.368 s	6.55 MiB	6.6 MiB	+ 49.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.712 s	0.593 s	-0.119 s	3.86 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 23.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.537 s	0.533 s	-0.004 s	3.88 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 23.71 KiB
/	0.334 s	0.224 s	-0.110 s	4.23 MiB	4.24 MiB	+ 13.77 KiB
Average	0.842 s	0.911 s	+0.069 s	4.4 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	90.3%	14,556	260	87
	CSS	7.5%	1,211	0	2
	SVG	1.1%	181	1	10
	JavaScript	1.1%	174	0	2
Total			16,122	261	101

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	13,907
Total complexity	3,511
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	MCProtectFW_V665
Most complex function	MCDBCallback::process()

Classes	63
Methods	876
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 6.65