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Wordfence fails to load in Playground with undefined method WP_SQLite_Driver::prepare error

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Description

When I try to start Playground with the Wordfence plugin it fails to activate the plugin with the following error.

[06-Nov-2025 12:06:48 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method WP_SQLite_Driver::prepare() in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php:883
Stack trace:
#0 /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/models/scanner/wfScanner.php(1339): wfConfig::set_ser('allScansSchedul...', Array)
#1 /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/models/scanner/wfScanner.php(1199): wfScanner->unscheduleAllScans()
#2 /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.php(1130): wfScanner->scheduleScans()
#3 /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.php(1195): wordfence::runInstall()
#4 /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/wordfence.php(146): wordfence::install_actions()
#5 /wordpress/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(2): include_once('/wordpress/wp-c...')
#6 /wordpress/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(2): plugin_sandbox_scrape('wordfence/wordf...')
#7 /internal/eval.php(20): activate_plugin('wordfence/wordf...')
#8 {main}
thrown in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php on line 883

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