diff --git a/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc b/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
index e75155b8675..3f7a30556af 100644
--- a/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ plugin from GitHub, run one of the following commands:
 [source,shell]
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 sudo bin/plugin install lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf <1>
-sudo bin/plugin install lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf/1.x <2>
+sudo bin/plugin install lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf/2.x <2>
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 <1> Installs the latest version from GitHub.
 <2> Installs the 1.x version from GitHub.
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ For instance, to install a plugin from your local file system, you could run:
 sudo bin/plugin install file:///path/to/plugin.zip
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+The plugin script will refuse to talk to an HTTPS URL with an untrusted
+certificate. To use a self-signed HTTPS cert, you will need to add the CA cert
+to a local Java truststore and pass the location to the script as follows:
+
+[source,shell]
+-----------------------------------
+sudo bin/plugin -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/trustStore.jks install https://....
+-----------------------------------
+
 [[listing-removing]]
 === Listing and Removing Installed Plugins