No impact incident

Fasthosts: WordPress security update 7.1.4: your websites are protected

Oct 28, 2026, 20:10 UTC
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no update since October 28, 2026
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Affected: Webhosting, Dedicated Servers, WordPress Hosting, Classic Dedicated Servers, Cloud VPS, Cloud Servers, VPS Edition 2, VPS Edition 1

Current status of Fasthosts: Operational — live Fasthosts status

Timeline

  1. Oct 28, 2026, 20:10 UTC
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    The WordPress project has released WordPress 7.1.4 to fix several vulnerabilities in WordPress core. All websites hosted with IONOS have been protected against known exploit attempts by our security systems (WAF and Webshield) from minute one. Hosting for WordPress (managed): On Top we are updating WordPress automatically to be entirely safe. No action is needed. Self-managed WordPress (Webhosting, VPS, Cloud, Dedicated Server): Please make sure you update to WordPress 7.1.4. Instructions: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/guides#/articles/wordpress-security-update-714-what-you-need-to-know----8283c6f0-6d66-4552-9b66-7377508bc829

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