CVE-2023-4599

medium

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e90f04e4-eb4c-4822-89c6-79f553987c37?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2994384/email-encoder-bundle/trunk?contextall=1&old=2958823&old_path=%2Femail-encoder-bundle%2Ftrunk#file0

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2958823/email-encoder-bundle#file60

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/tags/2.1.7/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L529

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-30

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00131