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Email Address Encoder, 5a1480bc02cf3955b174dd72b4b68afadd952c10

Application

Email Address Encoder

Published on
Nov 28, 2023
Research Description
Email Address Encoder [email-address-encoder] < 1.0.23 Email Address Encoder 1.0.22 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting The Email Address Encoder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's eae_shortcode shortcode in version 1.0.22 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the 'link' user supplied attribute. 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.
Affected versions
max 1.0.23.
Status
vulnerable