diff --git a/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/frameworks/ShellJS.qll b/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/frameworks/ShellJS.qll
index 33fbef3cf3e7..9f3eeb6e0dc9 100644
--- a/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/frameworks/ShellJS.qll
+++ b/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/frameworks/ShellJS.qll
@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
 /**
  * Models the `shelljs` library in terms of `FileSystemAccess` and `SystemCommandExecution`.
+ *
+ * https://www.npmjs.com/package/shelljs
  */
 
 import javascript
 
 module ShellJS {
+  private API::Node shellJSMember() {
+    result = API::moduleImport("shelljs")
+    or
+    result =
+      shellJSMember()
+          .getMember([
+              "exec", "cd", "cp", "touch", "chmod", "pushd", "find", "ls", "ln", "mkdir", "mv",
+              "rm", "cat", "head", "sort", "tail", "uniq", "grep", "sed", "to", "toEnd", "echo"
+            ])
+          .getReturn()
+  }
+
   /**
-   * Gets an import of the `shelljs` or `async-shelljs` module.
+   * Gets a function that can execute a shell command using the `shelljs` or `async-shelljs` modules.
    */
   DataFlow::SourceNode shelljs() {
-    result = DataFlow::moduleImport("shelljs") or
+    result = shellJSMember().asSource() or
     result = DataFlow::moduleImport("async-shelljs")
   }
 
@@ -39,7 +53,10 @@ module ShellJS {
 
     /** The `shelljs.exec` library modeled as a `shelljs` member. */
     private class ShellJsExec extends Range {
-      ShellJsExec() { this = DataFlow::moduleImport("shelljs.exec") }
+      ShellJsExec() {
+        this = DataFlow::moduleImport("shelljs.exec") or
+        this = shellJSMember().getMember("exec").asSource()
+      }
 
       override string getName() { result = "exec" }
     }
diff --git a/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/ShellJS.expected b/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/ShellJS.expected
index 4c8f45af1c01..003ae3f442f8 100644
--- a/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/ShellJS.expected
+++ b/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/ShellJS.expected
@@ -52,9 +52,14 @@ test_FileSystemAccess
 | tst.js:56:1:56:18 | shelljs.uniq(file) |
 | tst.js:57:1:57:26 | shelljs ...  file2) |
 | tst.js:58:1:58:32 | shelljs ...  file2) |
+| tst.js:60:1:60:17 | shelljs.cat(file) |
+| tst.js:60:1:60:41 | shelljs ... cement) |
+| tst.js:61:1:61:17 | shelljs.cat(file) |
 test_MissingFileSystemAccess
 test_SystemCommandExecution
 | tst.js:14:1:14:27 | shelljs ... ts, cb) |
+| tst.js:60:1:60:51 | shelljs ... ec(cmd) |
+| tst.js:61:1:61:27 | shelljs ... ec(cmd) |
 test_FileNameSource
 | tst.js:15:1:15:26 | shelljs ...  file2) |
 | tst.js:24:1:24:16 | shelljs.ls(file) |
diff --git a/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/tst.js b/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/tst.js
index feb7c7affa52..9e7905c98477 100644
--- a/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/tst.js
+++ b/javascript/ql/test/library-tests/frameworks/Shelljs/tst.js
@@ -56,3 +56,6 @@ shelljs.touch(file1, file2);
 shelljs.uniq(file);
 shelljs.uniq(file1, file2);
 shelljs.uniq(opts, file1, file2);
+
+shelljs.cat(file).sed(regex, replacement).exec(cmd);
+shelljs.cat(file).exec(cmd);