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16 Jan 2019

Vulnerability Details: Privilege Escalation in SG Optimizer

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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2 Mar 2018

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in February 2018

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Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during February (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet): [Read more]

22 Feb 2018

SiteGround Caused 300,000+ of Their Customers Websites to be Insecure Due to Their Plugin SG Optimizer

When it comes to blame for the poor state of web security one of the parties that should get more blame than they seem to get are web hosts. Not only do they often poorly handle security themselves, but increasingly they have been partnering with really bad security companies, allowing those security companies to cause even more problems. SiteGround is one of those web hosts, with their partnership with Sucuri (which in turns is owned by another web host, GoDaddy, with a horrible security record of their own). Sucuri is a  company that among too many issues to go through, tries to scare people in to hiring them to do unneeded work, lacks a basic understanding of security, and causes their customers websites to remain insecure when they were easily fixed by people not claiming to have the level expertise that Sucuri claims to have.

Considering that SiteGround would have so low regard for their customers to partner with Sucuri, it probably isn’t all that surprising that they have also caused 300,000+ of their customers’ websites (according to wordpress.org) that use their plugin SG Optimizer, to be insecure due to really poor security handling in the plugin. [Read more]