It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that a web host that has partnered with the security company Sucuri, which doesn’t seem to understand security, doesn’t really have much concern for security of their customers. Unfortunately with the poor state of WordPress leadership it probably isn’t surprising either that said web host is one of three recommend by WordPress, despite the web host’s lack of concern for their customers security. That web host being SiteGround and their plugin being SG Optimizer.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin SG Optimizer not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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