Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 20.0.5 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-7313Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤20.0.5Update to 20.0.6 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.1
- CVSS
- 6.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning wp-simple-firewall
- Affected≤ 20.0.5
- Patched in20.0.6
Update to 20.0.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 20.0.5. Version 20.0.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 20.0.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krugov Artyom.
The Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'nav_sub' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 20.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Request Path (REQUEST_URI) in Traffic Log ≤22.3.2Update to 22.3.4 | CVE-2026-118057 | |
| Medium6.5 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection ≤21.0.8Update to 21.0.10 | CVE-2026-0722 | |
| Medium6.1 | Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'message' Parameter ≤21.0.8Update to 21.0.10 | CVE-2026-0561 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update ≤21.0.9Update to 21.0.10 | CVE-2025-14427 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Disable Google Authenticator ≤21.0.9Update to 21.0.10 | CVE-2025-15370 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Request Path (REQUEST_URI) in Traffic Log
≤22.3.2Update to 22.3.4
- Medium6.5Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection
≤21.0.8Update to 21.0.10
- Medium6.1Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'message' Parameter
≤21.0.8Update to 21.0.10
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update
≤21.0.9Update to 21.0.10
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Disable Google Authenticator
≤21.0.9Update to 21.0.10
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.