Flywheel incident

Emergency WordPress Security Updates

Ongoing since 06:02 PM UTC, affecting Flywheel platform.

resolved Oct 28, 2026, 06:02 PM UTC

WP Engine will be performing WordPress Security Updates today, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026. All sites that are running WordPress v4.7 or later and not on the most secure version of their current branch will be updated (e.g., 7.1.3 -> 7.1.4). There are no deferrals in this update process as this is a security update. There is no need to wait for us to upgrade your WordPress, and it is recommended that you upgrade your WordPress version to the most secure version now. For more information on our security upgrade process, refer to our article here

Started
Oct 28, 2026, 06:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 23h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 28, 2026, 06:02 PM UTC

Affected components

Flywheel platform

Update timeline

  1. resolved Oct 28, 2026, 06:02 PM UTC

    WP Engine will be performing WordPress Security Updates today, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026. All sites that are running WordPress v4.7 or later and not on the most secure version of their current branch will be updated (e.g., 7.1.3 -> 7.1.4). There are no deferrals in this update process as this is a security update. There is no need to wait for us to upgrade your WordPress, and it is recommended that you upgrade your WordPress version to the most secure version now. For more information on our security upgrade process, refer to our article here

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