diff --git a/wordpress/Dockerfile b/wordpress/Dockerfile
index 31855b0..c00fe4b 100644
--- a/wordpress/Dockerfile
+++ b/wordpress/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ARG WORDPRESS_IMAGE_TAG=5.5.1-php7.4-apache
+ARG WORDPRESS_IMAGE_TAG=5.9-php7.4-apache
 FROM wordpress:${WORDPRESS_IMAGE_TAG} AS release
 
 # Add sudo in order to run wp-cli as the www-data user