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.

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Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers <= 2.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via eeb_mailto Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-16T14:42:53.905Z

Reserved: 2026-02-19T22:58:36.406Z

Link: CVE-2026-2840

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-16T14:42:31.722Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-16T15:17:17.190

Modified: 2026-04-16T15:17:17.190

Link: CVE-2026-2840

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