CVE-2022-0211: Getshieldsecurity Shield Security

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shield Security WordPress plugin before 13.0.6 does not sanitise and escape admin notes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.

Affected products

• Getshieldsecurity Shield Security: before 13.0.6 (fixed in 13.0.6)

Published 2022-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.