A security advisory lands in your inbox at 8:40 a.m. A popular plugin has a vulnerability, and you’re fairly sure it runs on a lot of your client sites, though you don’t yet know how many.
Finding out is often the slowest part of the response. Someone on your team logs in to each client dashboard, checks the plugin version, and notes the result in a spreadsheet, while clients wait to hear whether their site is affected.
The Pressable MCP Security Response Playbook is designed to cut that time down. It includes four tested incident response workflows, a triage page, and more than 30 ready-to-use prompts you can run with the AI tools your team already uses.
Why security incidents hit agencies harder
Agencies feel security incidents more than single-site owners do, because one problem can show up on many client sites at once, and every affected client expects an update.
- One vulnerable plugin can run on dozens of client sites, and each one has to be found, patched, and checked.
- Contractors come and go, so an old admin account, or a backdoor user added by a compromised plugin, is easy to miss.
- Clients will ask what happened and when it was fixed, and you’ll need a dated record of each change to answer them.
Pressable MCP connects AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, and Cursor to your Pressable account. You can check every site with one plain-language request. It’s included with every Pressable plan at no extra cost.
Try a prompt like this
“List all plugins with known security vulnerabilities across my Pressable account.”
What’s inside the playbook
The playbook gives you copy-and-paste prompts for each stage of an incident response, built around four tested workflows:
01
Plugin vulnerability containment
Find every site running the affected plugin, deactivate it, apply the patch, and confirm it’s fixed.
02
Unauthorized admin audit and removal
See who has access across your portfolio, check each site for backdoor admins, and remove them. Includes guidance for teams using single sign-on (SSO).
03
Safe rollback verification
Pick a backup that predates the attack, snapshot the current state, restore, and clear caches so visitors see the clean site.
04
Multi-site cleanup confirmation
Check that the patch landed everywhere and pull an activity log you can hand to a client.
Around those workflows, you’ll also find:
- Setup for nine AI clients. Step-by-step connection instructions for tools including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code with Copilot.
- Incident triage. Five questions that tell you which workflows to run, in what order, and across how many sites.
- An operating rhythm. What to run in the first 15 minutes, after containment, before a restore, and every week to catch issues early.
Every prompt that changes a site, like deactivating a plugin or restoring a backup, asks the AI to show you its plan and wait for your approval before it acts. Pressable tested each prompt against the live Pressable MCP. The playbook also notes that Pressable MCP doesn’t replace a penetration test or a qualified security review.
All of this runs on top of the security Pressable already has in place, including a web application firewall built with Automattic, a security team that tracks vulnerabilities and mitigates critical CVEs, data centers with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications, and Secure Hosting Alliance certification from the i2 Coalition.
How agencies have used Pressable MCP during incidents
45 sites
cleaned up in days by one engineer at Spotzer Digital
170+
client sites triaged from one terminal session at Getfused
5 days
to rebuild a church site with zero admin access at Worship Times
- Spotzer Digital had a plugin vulnerability compromise 45 of their 175 sites. One engineer used Pressable MCP with Claude to scan for malicious code, remove unauthorized admins, and update plugins in batches. The cleanup took days. Without automation, the team expected it to take months across several people.
- Getfused manages more than 170 client sites. When a third-party email service failed across most of them, their infrastructure administrator found the cause and pushed a fix to every site from one terminal session that same afternoon.
- Worship Times rebuilt a church client’s site in five days with zero admin access to the old one, scanning content for malware before importing it.
“If I’d had to do this by hand without the MCP server, I wouldn’t have even tried.”
Zachary Batte, infrastructure administrator at Getfused
Get the playbook before you need it
The playbook includes a checklist for the first 10 minutes after you connect: list your sites, run your first vulnerability scan, and check for active alerts. Doing it now, while things are quiet, means your setup is already tested when the next advisory arrives.
