Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security, CVE-2025-14427

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-14427
Home page URL: Security reports for Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security
Application: Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security
Published on: Feb 19, 2026
Research Description: 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 versions: max 21.0.10.
Status: vulnerable

Shield Security &#8211; Smart Bot Blocking &amp; Intrusion Prevention Security, CVE-2025-14427