Description
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2024-02-20
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-17043 The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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Title Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers <= 2.2.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00139}

epss

{'score': 0.00188}


Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Jannisthuemmig
Jannisthuemmig email Encoder
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:jannisthuemmig:email_encoder:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Jannisthuemmig
Jannisthuemmig email Encoder

Subscriptions

Jannisthuemmig Email Encoder
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:01:59.247Z

Reserved: 2024-02-06T16:33:36.042Z

Link: CVE-2024-1282

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:33:25.519Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-29T01:43:46.817

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:20:32.380

Link: CVE-2024-1282

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses