Malcure Malware Shield · Version history
Malcure Malware Shield changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 19.9.9
- Oct 12, 2026 (28 days ago)
- Releases
- 18
- since 2025
- In the last year
- 18
- about one every 19 days
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.1.4
- PHP 5.6 or later
Releases each year
- 20252 releases
- 202616 releases
202616 releases
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.9Latest
- Feature: Onboarding wizard for unregistered sites.
- Improvement: WP-CLI — --mcforce skips prompts (--dry-run takes priority); scan logs are JSON-only.
- Minor: Scheduled scans validate choices; duplicated scanner/CTA code cleanup; user scan labels “email missing”/”email invalid”.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.8
- Feature: WP-CLI remediation suite — repair, delete, whitelist management, and nuke-files from the command line.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.7
- Security: Hardened AJAX surface. Credits: Charles Vosburgh
- Security: Added Multisite capability gate for remediation actions. Credits: Charles Vosburgh
- Security: Added content verification and symlink detection for file repair. Credits: Charles Vosburgh
- Feature: DeepScan uploads.
- Improvement: Enhanced Event Logging.
- Bugfix: Self-healing scheduled scan cron.
- Bugfix: Self-healing scheduled scan cron when the plugin is reactivated.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.6
- Bugfix: Compatibility with PHP 5.6.
- Bugfix: User Scan resolves actual capabilities.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.5
- Bugfix: Fixed scanner not auto-updating definitions before scans.
- Feature: Email notification preferences.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.4.1
- Bugfix: Fixed fatal javascript error.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.4
- Feature: User Account Audit results in scans.
- Feature: SaaS-Served File Whitelist.
- Improvement: Enhanced Event Logging.
- Improvement: First-run UX performance optimisation.
- Bugfix: Some UI elements were not styled correctly under certain conditions.
- Bugfix: Cleaned results would not reflect in Stateful scanner.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.3
- Improvement: Stateful scanner now self-heals its monitor cron if WordPress cron is lost (e.g. after a server reboot).
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.2
- Hardening: Strengthens scan input validation and database-query sanitisation for safer scans.
- Stability: Improves runtime handling and diagnostics reliability during scans.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9.1
- Bugfix: Smaller files were being ignored during monitoring / scheduled scans.
- Improvement: Improved wp malcure sync --mcforce feedback and live definitions refresh behavior.
- Stability: More reliable definitions updates across admin and WP-CLI workflows.
- UX: Clearer manual definitions update errors in the admin UI.
- Feature: Added WP-CLI definitions export and import commands for moving definitions between environments.
- Feature: Added wp malcure refresh-checksums for on-demand official core, plugin, and theme checksum refresh.
- Feature: Added wp malcure start-async-scan, cancel-async-scan, and status-async-scan, with text and JSON status output.
- Improvement: CLI commands are properly documented.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.9
- Feature: Malware definitions are now checked hourly for faster threat-intelligence updates.
- Stability: Reduced unnecessary SaaS requests with smarter local freshness checks before contacting the API.
- Improvement: Admin and WP-CLI now use the same definitions-check flow and record the last successful definitions check for more consistent refresh behavior.
- Improvement: Diagnostics now flag MySQL settings that can interrupt large definition updates and database scans.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.8
- Bugfix: Scheduled scanning wouldn’t ignore whitelisted items.
- Several UI fixes.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.7
- Major Bugfix: In certain conditions unknown files inside core directories were never reported.
- Bugfix: Fixed styles for Monitoring UI.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.6
- Fixed issues not clearing when initializing scan.
- Fixed low confidence issues being saved.
- Fixed database issues not being saved.
- Fixed compatibility testing transients.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Updated readme with respect to recent features, functionality and updates.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.5
- New: Clearer admin UI labeling.
- Bugfix: Styles not loading on Scan Scheduler page.
- Stability: Several other stability fixes.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.4
- Major Bugfix: Fatal error during auto-upgrade.
- Updated readme.
20252 releases
Malcure Malware Shield 19.3
- Major Bugfix: The very initial database record was never scanned.
- Feature: New DB-record inspection + (Advanced Edition) DB-record whitelisting.
- Improvement: Smart Checksum Refresh — Updates only modified components during upgrades for faster performance.
- Major: Checksum system overhaul: more robust payload handling, better core vs non-core validation, and automatic checksum refresh after WP/plugin/theme upgrades.
Malcure Malware Shield 19.2
- Feature: Major performance optimization for checksums.
- Feature: Enhanced SaaS API integration with signature verification.
- Feature: Compatibility check for plugin version.
- UX: Improved license validation and error messages.
- UX: Better handling of database vs file infections in UI.
Questions about Malcure Malware Shield’s releases
What is the latest version of Malcure Malware Shield?
19.9.9, released on Oct 12, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.6 or later.
How often is Malcure Malware Shield updated?
18 releases in the last year, about one every 19 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from November 2025.
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