Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses: A security weakness
Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses
- Plugin slug
email-encoder- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 06, 2021
This CVE was published Sep 06, 2021 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N