The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.8. This is due to the plugin allowing nonce verification to be bypassed via user-supplied parameter in the 'isNonceVerifyRequired' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute SQL injection attacks, extracting sensitive information from the database, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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Description The Shield Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.8. This is due to the plugin allowing nonce verification to be bypassed via user-supplied parameter in the 'isNonceVerifyRequired' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute SQL injection attacks, extracting sensitive information from the database, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Title Shield Security <= 21.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection
Weaknesses CWE-89
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-02-19T04:36:27.820Z

Updated: 2026-02-19T04:36:27.820Z

Reserved: 2026-01-08T12:35:07.937Z

Link: CVE-2026-0722

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-19T07:17:41.810

Modified: 2026-02-19T07:17:41.810

Link: CVE-2026-0722

cve-icon Redhat

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