SiteGround Security <= 1.5.8 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-66121
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 30, 2025
Last Updated January 15, 2026
Researcher Legion Hunter

Description

The SiteGround Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 1.5.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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Vulnerability Details for Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Plugin

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sg-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.5.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.8
Patched Version
  • 1.5.9

Recent vulnerabilities in Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Plugin

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Plugin <= 1.6.6 - 2-Factor Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-82228 5.3 Ananda Dhakal August 28, 2026
2 Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection <= 1.6.4 - IP Allowlist Bypass CVE-2026-13342 5.3 Shivamani Vastrala July 23, 2026
3 Security Optimizer – The All-In-One Protection Plugin <= 1.5.0 - Missing Authorization via hide_notice() CVE-2024-38774 4.3 Rafie Muhammad July 19, 2024
4 SiteGround Security <= 1.3.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection CVE-2023-0234 7.2 So Sakaguchi January 13, 2023
5 SiteGround Security <= 1.2.5 - Authorization Weakness to Authentication Bypass CVE-2022-0993 8.1 Chloe Chamberland April 7, 2022
6 SiteGround Security <= 1.2.5 - Authentication Bypass via 2FA Setup CVE-2022-0992 9.8 Chloe Chamberland April 6, 2022

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