Vulnerability · Published Feb 19, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-14427Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches <= 21.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches from paultgoodchild. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| paultgoodchild | Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches | 0 – through 21.0.9 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N