CVE-2023-5109

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Description

The WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wpml_mailto' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 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. This was partially patched in version 3.1.3 and fully patched in version 3.1.4.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec882062-0059-47ca-a007-3347e7adb70b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mailto-links/tags/3.1.2/core/includes/classes/class-wp-mailto-links-validate.php#L582

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-10-20

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: 0.0011