CVE-2025-14427: Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches <= 21.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update
paultgoodchild · Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches
Affected: paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 13% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
The Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the `MfaEmailDisable` action in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to disable the global Email 2FA setting for the entire site.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- paultgoodchild · Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breachesup to and including 21.0.9
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- paultgoodchild
- Published
- February 2026
CoverageNo articles yet
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