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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2025-14427 EUVD-2025-207915GHSA-xmx2-52xv-386p

Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches <= 21.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update

Published Feb 19, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches ≤ 21.0.9 —

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