CVE-2026-0722

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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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f53d9579-56e9-41aa-b6b7-2472734ee719?source=cve

https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-0722/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3439494%40wp-simple-firewall&new=3439494%40wp-simple-firewall&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-simple-firewall/tags/21.0.8/src/lib/src/Tables/DataTables/LoadData/Traffic/BuildTrafficTableData.php#L114

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-simple-firewall/tags/21.0.8/src/lib/src/ActionRouter/CaptureAjaxAction.php#L42

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-simple-firewall/tags/21.0.8/src/lib/src/ActionRouter/Actions/BaseAction.php#L125

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium