ManageWP has been making the lives of WordPress professionals and agencies easier for years within the GoDaddy ecosystem - helping them manage updates, backups, monitoring, and reporting at scale.
Today, we're excited to announce that its security is getting a major upgrade with the introduction of Patchstack’s vulnerability detection and proactive protection.
You know what our users told us? They're tired of scrambling every time a vulnerability drops. They wanted protection that actually gives them breathing room. That's exactly what Patchstack does. Their protection blocks threats while our users plan and test updates properly. No more emergency fixes, no more 2 AM panic. Just good security that fits into how they actually work.
— Predrag Zdravkovic, ManageWP
What Patchstack Protection adds to ManageWP
With 7,966 vulnerabilities identified in 2024 and exploits often beginning within 5 hours of public disclosure, WordPress sites are exposed during the most dangerous period - the gap between disclosure and patching.
For agencies managing dozens or hundreds of sites, manually reacting within that window simply isn’t scalable.
Patchstack's RapidMitigate protection closes that window by applying targeted mitigation rules up to 48 hours before vulnerabilities go public, even before plugin developers release updates, and blocking attack attempts.
ManageWP users will be able to immediately see:
- Identified vulnerabilities across plugins, themes, and core
- Exploit attempts that were automatically mitigated
- Threat intelligence details, including attack types and malicious IPs
- Protection status across all managed sites
No separate logins, no switching between platforms. Simply protection running automatically inside the dashboard that agencies already use every day.
The Patchstack team didn't just hand us an API and wish us luck. We worked together to make sure the integration felt native to ManageWP, that the data showed up where our users expected it, and that enabling protection was as simple as clicking a button. That collaborative approach made all the difference.
— Predrag Zdravkovic, ManageWP
Partnering to protect WordPress professionals
With Patchstack Protection now built directly into the ManageWP dashboard, WordPress professionals can stay protected automatically - without adding another tool, another login, or another thing to constantly monitor.
Vulnerabilities get mitigated before they go public, sites stay secure in the background, and updates can happen on your schedule instead of in panic mode.
Together with ManageWP, we’re making proactive vulnerability mitigation part of the everyday WordPress workflow - not an afterthought, not a separate tool, but a built-in layer of protection.
And this is just the beginning.
