Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2023-7070

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-7070
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: Jan 11, 2024
Research Description: The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's eeb_mailto shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.9 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 2.1.10.
Status: vulnerable

Email Encoder &#8211; Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2023-7070