Shield Security

Category - Wordpress Plugins, Bot Protection

Shield Security plugin provides bot blocking and intrusion prevention


We have discovered  19,861 live websites   are using Shield Security.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using Shield Security:19,861 websites
Most popular in: United States
Market position in Wordpress Plugins category:#329
Market penetration in Wordpress Plugins:0.16%
Most popular version:21.2.6

Security vulnerabilites

Known security issues associated with Shield Security
PublishedCVETitleDomains
Feb, 2026CVE-2025-14427Shield Security: Blocks Bots, Protects Users, and Prevents Security Breaches <= 21.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Email MFA Update3,969
Feb, 2026CVE-2026-0561Shield Security <= 21.0.8 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'message' Parameter3,969
Feb, 2026CVE-2026-0722Shield Security <= 21.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection3,969
Jan, 2026CVE-2025-15370Shield Security <= 21.0.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Disable Google Authenticator3,969
Aug, 2024CVE-2024-7313Shield Security < 20.0.6 - Reflected XSS1,646
Jun, 2024CVE-2024-4344Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 19.1.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery1,389
Feb, 2024CVE-2023-6989Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking & Intrusion Prevention Security <= 18.5.9 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion451
Jan, 2024CVE-2024-22163WordPress Shield Security Plugin <= 18.5.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)443
Jun, 2023CVE-2023-0992Shield Security <= 17.0.17 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting219
Jun, 2023CVE-2023-0993Shield Security <= 17.0.17 - Missing Authorization219

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Shield Security usage.
Websites that added Shield Security 913
Websites that dropped Shield Security 925
Websites that changed version of Shield Security  14,100

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Major Versions

  • 21.xx (9 subversions, 9,563 domains)
  • 20.xx (10 subversions, 326 domains)
  • 19.xx (8 subversions, 1,008 domains)
  • 18.xx (10 subversions, 396 domains)
  • 16.xx (5 subversions, 114 domains)

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using Shield Security
United States6,651 websites


Germany2,021 websites
Poland1,690 websites
Netherlands1,377 websites
GB1,090 websites
France830 websites
Italy494 websites
Canada457 websites
Brazil372 websites
Australia343 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using Shield Security
.com8,029 websites
.pl1,285 websites
.de1,208 websites
.nl1,128 websites
.org1,115 websites
.co.uk620 websites
.net462 websites
.it363 websites
.fr339 websites
.com.br323 websites

Shield Security Versions

sorted by popularity
21.2.64,310 websites
21.0.102,260 websites
21.0.7947 websites
21.0.8867 websites
21.2.4642 websites
19.0.7638 websites
19.1.19225 websites
21.2.2219 websites
18.5.10178 websites
18.1.2174 websites

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Top Websites Using Shield Security

A look at the most popular websites built with Shield Security
DomainCountryRankContacts
stopdesign.com United States923
care.com United States13,725
drugfree.org United States16,126
policingequity.org United States16,886
civicplus.com United States18,799
aderant.com United States34,790
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FAQ

Shield Security falls under the categories of Wordpress Plugins, and Bot Protection.
WebTechSurvey systematically indexes websites and their technologies. Users can find websites using Shield Security through the WebTechSurvey platform.
There are currently 58,850,305 live websites that use Shield Security.
The main competitors to Shield Security include Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Elementor, and Litespeed Cache.
Shield Security has a known security vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-14427, CVE-2026-0561, CVE-2026-0722, and CVE-2025-15370.