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CVE-2026-8048: My Email Shortcode <= 0.91 - [Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')]

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The My Email Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'subject' shortcode attribute in the 'my-email' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.91 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.

Affected products

• paulpela My Email Shortcode: through 0.91

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-email-shortcode/tags/0.91/my-email-shortcode.php#L37
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/my-email-shortcode/trunk/my-email-shortcode.php#L37
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c9f5515-cdf5-4883-bdeb-1de53bcc615a?source=cve

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