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Security incident · CVE-2025-14427

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

Published Feb 19, 2026 · catalog updated Apr 8, 2026 · Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches

Last checked Nov 7, 2026. A connected source was read within the last 7 days.

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-14427. EPSS is 0.22%. Act only if a listed version of Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.

Same product and reporting

Severity
Medium4.3
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.22%
Remediation
Vendor / distro source
Affected products
vendor paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches 0 ≤21.0.9

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 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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches 0 ≤21.0.90 ≤21.0.9

How to fix CVE-2025-14427

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-14427. EPSS is 0.22%. Act only if a listed version of Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches 0 ≤21.0.9 0 ≤21.0.9. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.22%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Feb 19, 2026 · EUVD

    Detected

    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 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.

  2. Apr 8, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    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 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.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-14427

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-14427

    30-day exploitation probability 0.22%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-207915

    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 action in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.9. This makes it possible for authen

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Nov 7, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

  • FIRST EPSSNov 7, 2026
  • CVE.orgNov 7, 2026
  • EUVDNov 7, 2026