Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2026-2840

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-2840
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: Apr 16, 2026
Research Description: The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'eeb_mailto' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 2.4.5.
Status: vulnerable

Email Encoder &#8211; Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers, CVE-2026-2840