diff --git a/lib/lib_simplepie.php b/lib/lib_simplepie.php
index 6f7aac1ef..3e14249f1 100644
--- a/lib/lib_simplepie.php
+++ b/lib/lib_simplepie.php
@@ -4269,6 +4269,7 @@ class SimplePie_File
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
 				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers2);
+				curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
 				if (!ini_get('open_basedir') && !ini_get('safe_mode') && version_compare(SimplePie_Misc::get_curl_version(), '7.15.2', '>='))
 				{
 					curl_setopt($fp, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);