Abstract We consider the well-posedness of a stochastic evolution problem in a bounded Lipschitz domain D ⊂ ℝ d with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and an initial condition in L 2 ( D ). The main technical difficulties in proving the result of existence and uniqueness of a solution arise from the nonlinear diffusion-convection operator in divergence form which is given by the sum of a Carathéodory function satisfying p -type growth associated with coercivity assumptions and a Lipschitz continuous perturbation. In particular, we consider the case 1 < p < 2 with an appropriate lower bound on p determined by the space dimension. Another difficulty arises from the fact that the additive stochastic perturbation with values in L 2 ( D ) on the right-hand side of the equation does not inherit the Sobolev spatial regularity from the solution as in the multiplicative noise case.