WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Email Address Encoder 1.0.22 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.0.23

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
LVT-tholv2k
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-28 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-12-07 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-12-07 (about 2 years ago)

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