# Tuesday drops the fixes. *Wednesday starts the clock.*

See which of this month’s Microsoft and third-party patches your endpoints are missing, prioritize exploited vulnerabilities, and deploy fixes in minutes.

## What is Exploit Wednesday?

**Exploit Wednesday** is an informal term for the day after Microsoft’s monthly **Patch Tuesday** release. Once patches become public, security researchers and attackers can compare vulnerable and patched software to understand what the fixes address.

That does not mean every vulnerability is exploited immediately, or at all. But public patches can provide useful information about a flaw, and the longer an affected endpoint remains unpatched, the longer it may remain exposed.

- **Patch Tuesday** creates the fix.
- **Exploit Wednesday** increases the urgency to know what is affected, prioritize what matters, and get the right updates deployed.

## Top 5 exploits to patch first

Ranked by exploitation risk.

- Vulnerabilities
- Critical
- Zero-days exploited

## How Patch Manager Plus closes the Exploit Wednesday gap

Bring visibility, prioritization, testing, deployment, and verification into one repeatable Patch Tuesday workflow.

### 01. Find and prioritize missing patches

See which endpoints are missing Microsoft and third-party updates, prioritized by active exploits and risk.

### 02. Test before broad rollout

Pilot patches with test groups, approve what’s ready, and manage exceptions that need delayed remediation.

### 03. Automate Patch Tuesday

Scan, download, test, approve, deploy, and report on updates through scheduled, repeatable workflows.

### 04. Patch beyond Microsoft

Update Windows, macOS, Linux, Microsoft apps, and 1,100+ third-party applications from one console.

### 05. Verify and report remediation

Track patch status, failed installs, and reboot compliance, plus systems still exposed after deployment.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Exploit Wednesday?

Exploit Wednesday is the informal name for the day after Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday release. Once security updates become public, researchers and attackers analyze them to identify the vulnerabilities they fix; in some cases, this analysis can lead to working exploit code.