diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce-blocks/.wp-env.json b/plugins/woocommerce-blocks/.wp-env.json
index 49edf6823e2..35e6e393ad6 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce-blocks/.wp-env.json
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce-blocks/.wp-env.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-	"core": null,
+	"core": "https://wordpress.org/wordpress-latest.zip",
 	"phpVersion": "7.4",
 	"plugins": [
 		"https://github.com/WP-API/Basic-Auth/archive/master.zip",
diff --git a/plugins/woocommerce/.wp-env.json b/plugins/woocommerce/.wp-env.json
index 333f1fdd26a..70f9783578d 100644
--- a/plugins/woocommerce/.wp-env.json
+++ b/plugins/woocommerce/.wp-env.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-	"core": null,
+	"core": "https://wordpress.org/wordpress-latest.zip",
 	"phpVersion": "7.4",
 	"plugins": [ "." ],
 	"config": {