Hosting auto-installs plugins without owner consent
Host auto-installed and activated an AI plugin on client WordPress sites without the owners' consent.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
10 public reports · first reported 26 June 2026 · last reported 28 August 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners on SiteGround hosting found the AI Agent plugin installed and activated on their WordPress sites without being asked, often across many client sites at once. Agencies and freelancers managing dozens of sites had to deactivate and delete it everywhere and then explain it to their customers. Several also worried about what data had been shared and whether the plugin could break their sites. The episode shows that site owners want control over what gets installed on their own sites, and a tool that audits and blocks unrequested plugin installs would give them that control.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
AI Agent by SiteGround.
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Who has this problem
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