CVE-2025-15370: Paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, And Prevents Security Breaches

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.9 via the MfaGoogleAuthToggle class due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to disable Google Authenticator for any user.

Affected products

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

Published 2026-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.