Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4599

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-30 01:45:37
Last updated 2026-04-08 17:30:43
Assigner Wordfence
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Email Encoder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the eeb_mailto shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1.8 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. A partial patch was issued in version 2.1.8. The vulnerability was fully patched in 2.1.9.