Patchstack Security MCP. Audit WP/PHP vulnerabilities across all your sites.
Patchstack Security monitors WordPress and PHP installations for vulnerabilities and compliance issues. This MCP lets your AI agent check site software health across dozens of sites, track known CVEs in plugins/themes, and retrieve real-time security alerts from a single chat window.
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Retrieves a comprehensive list of all installed plugins, themes, and core software versions across your monitored accounts.
Queries the Patchstack database to find known vulnerabilities for specific components or general WordPress parts.
Gets a high-level security score and software overview for every site you manage, allowing quick risk assessment.
Pulls the most recent security alerts and triggered firewall rules to confirm if an attack is happening right now.
Retrieves deep technical information about a specific vulnerability, including recommended fixes or affected versions.
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What AI agents can do with Patchstack Security: 9 Tools
Use these nine tools to query specific data points about your sites, including vulnerability details, component inventories, and live security alerts.
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Start using Patchstack Security MCPGet Autoupdate Settings
Retrieves the current settings that govern automatic security patching of vulnerable components.
Get Component Vulnerabilities
Fetches all known vulnerabilities associated with a specific software component or...
Get Latest Alerts
Pulls the most recent security alerts and any firewall rules that were recently...
Get Latest Vulnerabilities
Gathers a list of the newest vulnerabilities added to the Patchstack threat database.
Get Site Software
Gets a complete inventory list of all software installed on one specific monitored...
Get Software Overview
Provides a broad security overview, summarizing the health and software status across all your connected sites.
Get Vulnerability Details
Delivers detailed technical information for any specific vulnerability you name or reference.
List Sites
Retrieves a comprehensive list and security score summary of every site Patchstack...
Search Vulnerabilities
Allows you to execute a targeted search query against the entire vulnerability...
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Security Audits Used To Be a Dashboard Nightmare
Today, checking the security of an agency's client portfolio means logging into dozens of separate dashboards. You click through site lists, open individual reports, copy vulnerability IDs, and cross-reference them with external databases just to build one single status report. It takes half a day, minimum.
With this MCP, you tell your agent exactly what you need—like 'Give me an overview of all sites that are running outdated plugins.' The agent runs the necessary checks and gives you an immediate, consolidated list of every site needing attention. You get instant intelligence.
Patchstack Security Gives You Full Visibility
You don't have to manually check if a core component has been compromised or what the latest CVEs are. Instead of copy-pasting version numbers into search engines, you simply ask your agent to run `get_component_vulnerabilities` for that specific plugin.
Your security workflow changes from tedious data gathering to direct conversation. You get immediate answers and a complete audit trail without leaving your chat interface.
What Patchstack Security MCP does for your AI
Using this MCP, you can manage the entire security posture of your WordPress sites without logging into a dozen dashboards. Your AI client directs your agent to monitor all connected sites, providing an instant security overview that pinpoints outdated plugins or themes. Need to know if 'Contact Form 7' has any recent CVEs? Just ask.
You can search massive databases for known vulnerabilities in specific components and even check the latest active firewall alerts. If you’re running a large agency or managing client sites, this MCP consolidates site auditing, vulnerability tracking, and patch management into one conversation stream. It gives you immediate visibility into which sites are secure and which need attention.
019d846a-52c5-709d-94d0-8730a840bd1a How to set up Patchstack Security MCP
The bottom line is that you talk to your agent, and it translates complex WordPress security data into simple, actionable text.
Subscribe to this MCP and provide your unique Patchstack User Token.
Connect your AI client using the token. Your agent can now access all site monitoring data.
Ask a natural language question, like 'What are the latest alerts for my dev site?' and get instant security answers.
Who uses Patchstack Security MCP
Anyone responsible for maintaining multiple live websites—especially agencies or enterprise developers. You're the person staring at 30+ client dashboards trying to figure out which one is actually failing and why.
You oversee dozens of clients, needing to quickly run a report on all sites for outdated plugins or critical vulnerabilities without manually checking each dashboard.
You need to audit site components and check the latest vulnerability data against your local development environment before pushing code live.
You require access to deep, structured threat intelligence—like querying specific component vulnerabilities or listing all monitored sites for a compliance report.
Benefits of connecting Patchstack Security MCP
Consolidated Site Auditing: Instead of opening dozens of client dashboards, you can use the list_sites tool to get a single security score overview for every site, instantly flagging risks and poor compliance scores.
Deep Vulnerability Research: Need technical proof? Use search_vulnerabilities or get_component_vulnerabilities to query massive databases directly. You get immediate details on CVEs that would take hours of manual searching.
Real-Time Threat Response: Don't wait for an alert email. With get_latest_alerts, your agent pulls the latest security events and triggered firewall rules immediately, giving you a live view of threats.
Proactive Patch Management: Review settings using get_autoupdate_settings to confirm if patches are running automatically. You can also use get_software_overview to see exactly which components need updating across the board.
Targeted Deep Dives: If a search is too broad, you can narrow it down. Use get_vulnerability_details on a specific ID or CVE number for the precise technical info needed by a developer.
Patchstack Security MCP use cases
Pre-Sale Client Health Check
A prospective client asks if their current WordPress installation is secure. You use your agent to run get_software_overview across their main site, retrieving a single report that confirms the software versions and highlights any critical outdated components.
Responding to a Breach Report
A client reports suspicious activity. Your agent immediately runs get_latest_alerts and cross-references it with get_site_software on the affected site, giving you instant confirmation of what was hit and when.
Routine Agency Compliance Audit
It's month-end. You use your agent to run list_sites, checking every client for security scores below 90. Then, for the lowest scoring ones, you use get_component_vulnerabilities to find the exact offending plugin.
Development Environment Testing
Before merging a new theme, a developer uses your agent with search_vulnerabilities. They query the database using the theme's dependencies to ensure no known CVEs exist in the code they are about to ship.
Patchstack Security MCP tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Treating it like a generic bug tracker
Asking the agent, 'Did my site break?' and waiting for vague answers. The AI will just list what it sees without context.
Don't ask if something broke. Ask specific questions using the tools: 'Check get_latest_alerts on Site X.' or 'What are the known vulnerabilities for this plugin? Use get_component_vulnerabilities.'
Forgetting multi-site scope
Running a single manual check on one site, only to realize you have 40 other sites with similar issues.
Always start by running get_software_overview or list_sites. This confirms the overall health of your entire portfolio before diving into individual component checks.
Confusing alerts with vulnerabilities
Assuming that because an alert fired, it means a vulnerability exists. Alerts are just signs something happened.
If you see an alert from get_latest_alerts, follow up by using get_vulnerability_details to understand the underlying threat and whether a patch is available.
When to use Patchstack Security MCP
Use this MCP if your primary job involves managing compliance, security posture, or software inventory across multiple WordPress sites. If you need to know 'What's wrong with Site X?' or 'Is Component Y vulnerable?', this is the right tool. Don't use it if you just need simple content updates; that's a CMS task. Also, don't rely on it for debugging PHP code logic—it checks version numbers and known flaws, not custom runtime errors. If your goal is purely to manage user accounts or payment systems, you should look at dedicated user management or billing connectors instead.
Frequently asked questions about Patchstack Security MCP
How do I see the overall health of all my WordPress sites with Patchstack Security MCP? +
You run get_software_overview. This tool aggregates data from all monitored websites and gives you a single, high-level security score for your entire portfolio.
Can I find out if a specific plugin has been compromised using Patchstack Security MCP? +
Yes. Use search_vulnerabilities or get_component_vulnerabilities. You can search the database by name, version, or even CVE identifier.
What is the difference between alerts and vulnerabilities using Patchstack Security MCP? +
Alerts (get_latest_alerts) show what happened right now—like a firewall rule being triggered. Vulnerabilities (found via search_vulnerabilities) are weaknesses that could be exploited.
Does Patchstack Security MCP help me manage automatic updates? +
It helps by checking your current settings with get_autoupdate_settings. You can confirm if automatic patching is enabled and what components are covered.
Is this better than just using the Patchstack dashboard? +
Using this MCP lets you talk to the data. Instead of navigating menus, you ask natural questions like 'List all sites with a score under 80,' and get an instant report.