diff --git a/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/mmu_ll.h b/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/mmu_ll.h
index fdd1ed1e01..2b2b618297 100644
--- a/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/mmu_ll.h
+++ b/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/mmu_ll.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2025 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -380,6 +380,19 @@ static inline uint32_t mmu_ll_entry_id_to_vaddr_base(uint32_t mmu_id, uint32_t e
     return vaddr_base + (entry_id << 16);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Check if the external memory vaddr belongs to the DPORT bus region
+ *
+ * @param vaddr start of the virtual address
+ *
+ * @return True for valid
+ */
+__attribute__((always_inline))
+static inline bool mmu_ll_vaddr_in_dport_bus_region(uint32_t vaddr)
+{
+    return (vaddr >= SOC_DPORT_CACHE_ADDRESS_LOW && vaddr < SOC_DPORT_CACHE_ADDRESS_HIGH);
+}
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/sha_ll.h b/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/sha_ll.h
index da8d2e3554..36bfee8299 100644
--- a/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/sha_ll.h
+++ b/components/hal/esp32s2/include/hal/sha_ll.h
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2025 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 #pragma once
 
 #include <stdbool.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include "soc/hwcrypto_reg.h"
 #include "hal/sha_types.h"
 #include "soc/dport_reg.h"
+#include "hal/mmu_ll.h"
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
@@ -135,11 +137,28 @@ static inline bool sha_ll_busy(void)
  */
 static inline void sha_ll_fill_text_block(const void *input_text, size_t block_word_len)
 {
-    uint32_t *data_words = (uint32_t *)input_text;
+    uint32_t input_word;
+    uint8_t *data_bytes = (uint8_t *)input_text;
     uint32_t *reg_addr_buf = (uint32_t *)(SHA_TEXT_BASE);
 
+    bool force_word_aligned_access = false;
+
+    /* In case of ESP32-S2, the DPORT bus region is word-aligned memory
+     * and does not support 8-bit accesses.
+     * Thus, when accessing data from these addresses we need to ensure
+     * the operations are word-aligned.
+     */
+    if (mmu_ll_vaddr_in_dport_bus_region((uint32_t)input_text)) {
+        force_word_aligned_access = true;
+    }
+
     for (size_t i = 0; i < block_word_len; i++) {
-        REG_WRITE(&reg_addr_buf[i], data_words[i]);
+        if (force_word_aligned_access) {
+            memcpy(&input_word, data_bytes + 4 * i, 4);
+            REG_WRITE(&reg_addr_buf[i], input_word);
+        } else {
+            REG_WRITE(&reg_addr_buf[i], *((uint32_t *)data_bytes + i));
+        }
     }
 }