Title: Automatic Plugin Updates
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Automatic Plugin Updates

 *  [Leanne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/norlink/)
 * (@norlink)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-updates-2/)
 * When did automatic updates start happening? Looking through my file change logs,
   I’ve had a handful of sites update to 4.6.13 (they were running 4.6.10 & 4.6.12)
   last night but the majority of my websites I handle haven’t updated automatically.
   I also can’t find a setting anywhere in the plugin for automatic updates.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [Chris Jean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisjean/)
 * (@chrisjean)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-updates-2/#post-6014405)
 * Sorry for the confusion Leanne. A critical security vulnerability was found in
   the plugin. In order to prevent this vulnerability from compromising sites once
   the vulnerability was known publicly, we worked with the wordpress.org security
   team to have vulnerable versions automatically updated.
 * In other words, this is not a feature of the plugin. It is something that the
   wordpress.org security team can do in order to ensure that critical security 
   vulnerabilities on sites are quickly patched. This is only done rarely and when
   the wordpress.org security team believes the vulnerability to be big enough to
   warrant the automatic update.
 * You can find further details about the vulnerability and the updates in [our announcement post](https://ithemes.com/2015/04/14/security-release-for-ithemes-security-update-to-v4-6-13-or-v1-14-18-pro-immediately/).
 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-updates-2/#post-6014626)
 * >  A critical security vulnerability was found in the plugin.
 * Yes, 11 months ago … and reported in this forum:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/log-viewer-xss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/log-viewer-xss)
 * dwinden

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 * [Kadence Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)
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 * Last reply from: [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-plugin-updates-2/#post-6014626)
 * Status: not resolved