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Through January 6th, 2025, our program has an expanded scope for all researchers with a new lower active install count threshold, automatic bonuses for in-scope submissions, an extra bonus for those focusing on high-risk vulnerabilities, a minimum bounty for all submissions, increased pending report limits, and our rewards remain as high as $31,200.
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Shield: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches
Information
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug | wp-simple-firewall (view on wordpress.org) |
| Software Status | Active |
| Software Author | paultgoodchild |
| Software Website | clk.shldscrty.com |
| Software Downloads | 12,146,508 |
| Software Active Installs | 50,000 |
| Software Record Last Updated | December 20, 2024 |
7 Vulnerabilities
Researcher:
Krugov Artyom
Researcher:
Christian Angel
Researcher:
hir0ot
Researcher:
beluga
Researcher:
Ram
Researcher:
Ram
Researcher:
RE-ALTER
| Title | Status | CVE ID | CVSS | Researchers | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 20.0.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting | Patched | CVE-2024-7313 | Krugov Artyom | August 5, 2024 | |
| Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 19.1.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery | Patched | CVE-2024-4344 | Christian Angel | June 1, 2024 | |
| Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 18.5.9 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion | Patched | CVE-2023-6989 | hir0ot | February 5, 2024 | |
| Shield Security <= 18.5.7 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via getColumnContent_Page | Patched | CVE-2024-22163 | beluga | January 16, 2024 | |
| Shield Security <= 17.0.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting | Patched | CVE-2023-0992 | Ram | April 25, 2023 | |
| Shield Security <= 17.0.17 - Missing Authorization | Patched | CVE-2023-0993 | Ram | April 25, 2023 | |
| Shield Security <= 13.0.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting | Patched | CVE-2022-0211 | RE-ALTER | January 19, 2022 |
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