# Insights from Google PageSpeed <= 4.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Full Report Recheck Trigger

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0980
- **Plugin:** Insights from Google PageSpeed (`google-pagespeed-insights`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-pagespeed-insights/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 5.0.0
- **Fixed in:** 5.0.0 (Update to 5.0.0 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions None seen (as of 2026-10-15)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/google-pagespeed-insights
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-14
- **Published:** 2026-10-15
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0980/

## Description

The Insights from Google PageSpeed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized scan triggering via the 'reports_update' admin action and the 'gpi_check_now' request parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.8. The plugin's admin action handler runs on admin_init and checks no capability, and its 'reports_update' action also checks no nonce. The scan loopback handler, which runs on every request, only checks that a pending-scan option is set to a constant true value and does not verify a secret token. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to start a forced recheck of every monitored page whenever they want, which uses up the site's Google PageSpeed API quota and server resources.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0980/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-pagespeed-insights/tags/5.0.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-pagespeed-insights/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0980/

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