{"id":"CVE-2023-7070","title":"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 s…","summary":"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 s…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.4,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-79","CWE-79"],"vendor":"onlineoptimisation","product":"email_encoder","affected":["email_encoder <= 2.1.9"],"published":"2024-01-11","updated":"2026-07-22","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7070","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/trunk/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L518","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/trunk/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L529","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3019206%40email-encoder-bundle&new=3019206%40email-encoder-bundle&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5afe6ea-93b8-4782-8593-76468e370a45?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/trunk/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L518","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/trunk/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L529","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3019206%40email-encoder-bundle&new=3019206%40email-encoder-bundle&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5afe6ea-93b8-4782-8593-76468e370a45?source=cve","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.004,"epssPercentile":0.34105,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-22T13:03:40.189Z","slug":"CVE-2023-7070","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `email_encoder <= 2.1.9`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":35,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.2,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}