WP Umbrella Rolls Out New Security Dashboard

Aurelio from WP Umbrella has just announced the release of a new security dashboard for the WordPress management and maintenance platform.

New: Security Dashboard

For professional agencies, security means managing risks across all WordPress sites — not waiting until it’s too late to clean up malware. This update is designed to help you review security information across your entire portfolio and take action in bulk when necessary.

When managing multiple WordPress sites, security issues don’t arise one site at a time. The new security dashboard allows you to review security information for all your sites on a single screen.

You can view the following:

• the security score of each site (see below);
• known plugin and theme vulnerabilities;
• WordPress site health warnings;
• whether Site Protect (virtual patching, powered by Patchstack) is enabled.

When vulnerabilities are linked to specific plugins or themes, you can update them in bulk.

Security Score

The Security Score estimates the level of exposure of a WordPress site to known security risks. A low score does not necessarily indicate that the site has been hacked. Rather, it indicates that the site is more vulnerable based on its current configuration and known issues.

The score ranges from 0 to 100. Each site starts at 100, and points are deducted based on the following checks:

• Known vulnerabilities: up to 70 points depending on the number and severity;
• PHP and WordPress core: 10 points;
• Site health and configuration issues: 10 points;
• Site Protect (virtual patching): 10 points;

When Site Protect is enabled, vulnerabilities are still listed, but they do not reduce the score.

What’s Next?

WP Umbrella‘s security dashboard is the first of several bulk interfaces they are working on. The same structure and behaviour will be applied to updates, monitoring and backups.