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CVE-2021-24599: Email Encoder < 2.1.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

• Email Encoder: before 2.1.2 — fixed in 2.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Email Encoder 2.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/625a272f-5c69-4f6a-8eee-32f70cd4a558
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/625a272f-5c69-4f6a-8eee-32f70cd4a558

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