TI-2024-01192 Aliases CVE-2024-1282 GHSA-h5w5-6jp4-mjpj

Cross-site scripting in onlineoptimisation Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and…

LOW 29CWE-79Published 2024-02-20 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00443 38th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
onlineoptimisation	Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers	up to 2.2.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers Vendoronlineoptimisation Affected up to 2.2.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:onlineoptimisation:email_encoder::::::wordpress::*	before 2.2.1	Vulnerable	onlineoptimisation

cpe:2.3:a:onlineoptimisation:email_encoder:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 2.2.1 Vulnerable ·onlineoptimisation

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-1282
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h5w5-6jp4-mjpj

References

Patch 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3033889%40email-encoder-bundle%2Ftrunk&old=3020142%40email-encoder-bundle%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78da1f88-2446-4ea5-9437-a118324ab6c2?source=cve

Other 3

TI-2023-25929 WordPress Email Encoder Bundle Plugin <= 2.1.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2023-06466 Cross-site scripting in onlineoptimisation Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4

Sources

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