CVE-2024-7313: Getshieldsecurity Shield Security

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shield Security WordPress plugin before 20.0.6 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Affected products

• Getshieldsecurity Shield Security: before 20.0.6 (fixed in 20.0.6)

Published 2024-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.