CVE-2023-4599

Summary

The Email Encoder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'eeb_mailto' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.1.8 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. A partial patch was issued in version 2.1.8. The vulnerability was fully patched in 2.1.9.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e90f04e4-eb4c-4822-89c6-79f553987c37?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/tags/2.1.7/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L529
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2958823/email-encoder-bundle#file60

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e90f04e4-eb4c-4822-89c6-79f553987c37?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-encoder-bundle/tags/2.1.7/core/includes/classes/class-email-encoder-bundle-run.php#L529
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2958823/email-encoder-bundle#file60
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2994384/email-encoder-bundle/trunk?contextall=1&old=2958823&old_path=%2Femail-encoder-bundle%2Ftrunk#file0

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