CVE-2025-14427: Paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, And Prevents Security Breaches

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, And Prevents Security Breaches: up to and including 21.0.9

Published 2026-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.