CVE-2026-2840 PUBLISHED

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers <= 2.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via eeb_mailto Shortcode

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 19.02.2026 Published: 16.04.2026 Updated: 16.04.2026

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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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.4

Product Status

Vendor onlineoptimisation
Product Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.4.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE