Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2023-4599

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-4599
Home page URL: Security reports for Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Application: Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Published on: Aug 30, 2023
Research Description: The Slimstat Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'eeb_mailto' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1.7 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.
Affected versions: max 2.1.9.
Status: vulnerable

Email Encoder &#8211; Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2023-4599