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Description

The Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 21.0.9 via the MfaGoogleAuthToggle class due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to disable Google Authenticator for any user.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-30 | Published 2026-01-16 | Updated 2026-01-16 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2026-01-15:Disclosed

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-5397-4062-af39-7ea86589a0d0?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ctions/MfaGoogleAuthToggle.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...set/3438647/wp-simple-firewall

cve.org (CVE-2025-15370)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-15370)

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