Report - Patchstack Security 2.1.5

Does Patchstack Security work with WordPress 5.8.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-11-02 17:27:43 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: 265.29 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	5.8.1
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-04-22T07:11:00+00:00
Active installs	50,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/patchstack/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 3

Security ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=patchstack
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=patchstack%2Fpatchstack.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=5a9a6b04eb
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.294 s
Memory usage	3.37 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Security

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=patchstack
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.148 s
Memory usage	3.27 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.197 s
Memory usage	3.08 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.310 s	0.270 s	-0.040 s	3.08 MiB	3.35 MiB	+ 274.23 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.163 s	0.227 s	+0.064 s	3.11 MiB	3.44 MiB	+ 339.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.924 s	1.008 s	+0.084 s	5.27 MiB	5.52 MiB	+ 260.53 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.368 s	0.308 s	-0.060 s	3.03 MiB	3.29 MiB	+ 271.1 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.237 s	0.132 s	-0.105 s	3.02 MiB	3.27 MiB	+ 255.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.366 s	0.180 s	-0.186 s	3.01 MiB	3.27 MiB	+ 271.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.168 s	0.181 s	+0.013 s	3.04 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 270.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.804 s	0.950 s	+0.146 s	5.26 MiB	5.51 MiB	+ 255.49 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.251 s	0.245 s	-0.006 s	3 MiB	3.27 MiB	+ 272.15 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.192 s	0.197 s	+0.005 s	3.04 MiB	3.31 MiB	+ 276.95 KiB
/	0.237 s	0.192 s	-0.045 s	2.91 MiB	3.08 MiB	+ 171.09 KiB
Average	0.365 s	0.354 s	-0.012 s	3.43 MiB	3.69 MiB	+ 265.29 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

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	69.6%	7,465	3,619	110
	CSS	10.1%	1,080	0	2
	Markdown	7.7%	830	0	7
	C	5.4%	582	18	1
	JSON	3.5%	371	0	5
	JavaScript	2.5%	273	6	3
	SVG	0.4%	48	0	13
	Bourne Shell	0.4%	40	0	1
	m4	0.3%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.1%	8	12	1
Total			10,729	3,655	144

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	6,569
Total complexity	1,528
Median class complexity	6.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	P_Firewall
Most complex function	P_Firewall::processor()

Classes	82
Methods	423
Functions	5

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.

Database Tables 3

wp_patchstack_event_log
wp_patchstack_firewall_log
wp_patchstack_logic

Options `wp_options` 89

patchstack_activity_log_failed_logins
patchstack_activity_log_failed_logins_db
patchstack_activity_log_is_enabled
patchstack_add_security_headers
patchstack_advanced_blacklist_firewall
patchstack_advanced_character_string_filter
patchstack_anti_bruteforce_attempts
patchstack_anti_bruteforce_blocktime
patchstack_anti_bruteforce_minutes
patchstack_api_token
patchstack_application_passwords_disabled
patchstack_auto_update
patchstack_autoblock_attempts
patchstack_autoblock_blocktime
patchstack_autoblock_minutes
patchstack_bad_query_strings
patchstack_basic_firewall
patchstack_basic_firewall_roles
patchstack_basicscanblock
patchstack_blackhole_log
patchstack_block_bruteforce_ips
patchstack_block_debug_log_access
patchstack_block_fake_bots
patchstack_blocked_attacks
patchstack_captcha_login_form
patchstack_captcha_on_comments
patchstack_captcha_private_key
patchstack_captcha_private_key_v3
patchstack_captcha_private_key_v3_new
patchstack_captcha_public_key
patchstack_captcha_public_key_v3
patchstack_captcha_public_key_v3_new
patchstack_captcha_registration_form
patchstack_captcha_reset_pwd_form
patchstack_captcha_type
patchstack_clientid
patchstack_cookie_notice_accept_text
patchstack_cookie_notice_backgroundcolor
patchstack_cookie_notice_cookie_expiration
patchstack_cookie_notice_credits
patchstack_cookie_notice_message
patchstack_cookie_notice_opacity
patchstack_cookie_notice_privacypolicy_enable
patchstack_cookie_notice_privacypolicy_link
patchstack_cookie_notice_privacypolicy_text
patchstack_cookie_notice_textcolor
patchstack_cron_offset
patchstack_custom_whitelist_rules
patchstack_db_version
patchstack_disable_htaccess
patchstack_firewall_custom_rules
patchstack_firewall_custom_rules_loc
patchstack_firewall_htaccess_hash
patchstack_firewall_ip_header
patchstack_firewall_rules
patchstack_first_activated
patchstack_forbid_rfi
patchstack_geo_block_countries
patchstack_geo_block_enabled
patchstack_geo_block_inverse
patchstack_hidewpcontent
patchstack_hidewpversion
patchstack_image_hotlinking
patchstack_index_views
patchstack_ip_block_list
patchstack_json_is_disabled
patchstack_known_blacklist
patchstack_license_free
patchstack_login_2fa
patchstack_login_time_block
patchstack_login_time_end
patchstack_login_time_start
patchstack_login_whitelist
patchstack_multisite_installed
patchstack_mv_wp_login
patchstack_pluginedit
patchstack_prevent_default_file_access
patchstack_proxy_comment_posting
patchstack_register_email_blacklist
patchstack_rename_wp_login
patchstack_rm_readme
patchstack_secretkey
patchstack_show_settings
patchstack_software_data_hash
patchstack_userenum
patchstack_whitelist
patchstack_whitelist_keys_rules
patchstack_whitelist_rules
patchstack_xmlrpc_is_disabled

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Patchstack Security 2.1.5