diff --git a/bitnami/wordpress/4/Dockerfile b/bitnami/wordpress/4/Dockerfile
index 4370f4f6ab86..d5658b5090c7 100644
--- a/bitnami/wordpress/4/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/wordpress/4/Dockerfile
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-FROM bitnami/minideb-extras:jessie-r54
+FROM bitnami/minideb-extras:jessie-r55
 LABEL maintainer "Bitnami <containers@bitnami.com>"
 
 # Install required system packages and dependencies
 RUN install_packages libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcomerr2 libcurl3 libexpat1 libffi6 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgcrypt20 libgmp10 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgpg-error0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libhogweed2 libicu52 libidn11 libjpeg62-turbo libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblzma5 libmcrypt4 libncurses5 libnettle4 libp11-kit0 libpcre3 libpng12-0 libpq5 libreadline6 librtmp1 libsasl2-2 libsqlite3-0 libssh2-1 libssl1.0.0 libstdc++6 libsybdb5 libtasn1-6 libtidy-0.99-0 libtinfo5 libxml2 libxslt1.1 zlib1g
-RUN bitnami-pkg unpack apache-2.4.33-2 --checksum 303515aa732cb8a33c9018953f1f8bd3d244e95588906f3dd8c1f30efc115dd2
+RUN bitnami-pkg unpack apache-2.4.33-3 --checksum 55bc664737e2ff9d534468088424ee4b04e770e67800e317c9db5b1e58cf2ffe
 RUN bitnami-pkg unpack php-7.0.30-3 --checksum 6bd722cbf50b23d159394997370e1066fa1d4e05a70ff19fb940046db526c54b
 RUN bitnami-pkg unpack mysql-client-10.1.33-0 --checksum 1b1608f1c1f4e21f05037225e095c49035ad8bfdb8b580abbb904c9f2448a5c6
 RUN bitnami-pkg install libphp-7.0.30-3 --checksum 56a92497c5965c026a1faaa25bd7c47a65d629330d3f047f53a06a49d183c85f
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ENV ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD="no" \
     APACHE_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER="443" \
     APACHE_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER="80" \
     BITNAMI_APP_NAME="wordpress" \
-    BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION="4.9.6-r2" \
+    BITNAMI_IMAGE_VERSION="4.9.6-r3" \
     MARIADB_HOST="mariadb" \
     MARIADB_PORT_NUMBER="3306" \
     MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD="" \
diff --git a/bitnami/wordpress/README.md b/bitnami/wordpress/README.md
index 88ef610d8b14..9a62814f1759 100644
--- a/bitnami/wordpress/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/wordpress/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ $ docker-compose up
 
 # Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links
 
-* [`4`, `4.9.6-r2`, `latest` (4/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-wordpress/blob/4.9.6-r2/4/Dockerfile)
+* [`4`, `4.9.6-r3`, `latest` (4/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-wordpress/blob/4.9.6-r3/4/Dockerfile)
 * [`4-rhel-7`, `4.9.6-r1-rhel-7` (4/rhel-7/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-wordpress/blob/4.9.6-r1-rhel-7/4/rhel-7/Dockerfile)
 
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