CVE-2024-7083 (GCVE-0-2024-7083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-20 06:00 – Updated: 2026-04-20 13:16
VLAI?
Title
Email Encoder < 2.3.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Email Encoder WordPress plugin before 2.3.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Severity ?
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7aeb6891-e159-4e… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Email Encoder Affected: 0 , < 2.3.4 (semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev WPScan
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