CVE-2025-14427 Missing authorization in Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches
Authenticated subscribers can disable global Email 2FA settings due to missing capability checks, bypassing security controls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14427?
CVE-2025-14427 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in paultgoodchild Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches, published on 19 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14427?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14427?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14427 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-14427 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14427 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xmx2-52xv-386p.