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Input validation vulnerability in Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers 1.4.2

  • Severity: medium-risk
  • Status: Fixed
  • Publication: August 10, 2015

The Email Encoder plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability which allows unauthenticated attackers to inject web scripts into a victim’s browser. This vulnerability exists in versions of the plugin before 1.4.2, and is caused by the plugin not properly checking the input it receives, or not properly protecting the output it sends. Updating the plugin to the latest version can help protect against this vulnerability.

Detected in:

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers fixed vulnerable versions: >= * < 1.4.2

This information is sourced from www.wpvulnerability.com. An open-source database of vulnerabilities maintained by the community. Help us out by submitting vulnerabilities!

Version compare shows which versions have a vulnerability. For example: >= 2.2.8 <= 2.2.21 means:

> from 2.2.8
= including 2.2.8 & 2.2.21
< to 2.2.21

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