WordPress plugin · email-encoder-bundle
Is Email Encoder safe?
Safe on 2.5.5 or newer.
The current version, 2.5.5, is past every affected range on record (9 of 9 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 9
- High or critical
- 0
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 2.5.5
- Last updated
- Sep 21, 2026
- Active installs
- 90,000+
Every recorded flaw
- May 20, 2026Email Encoder: Does not escape email addresses retrieved via user inputCVE-2026-5776 · fixed in 2.4.7 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.1
- Apr 20, 2026Email Encoder: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-7083 · fixed in 2.3.4 · reported by WPScanLow 3.5
- Apr 16, 2026Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-2840 · affects up to 2.4.4 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jul 29, 2024Email Encoder: Does not escape the WP_Email_Encoder_Bundle_options[protection_text] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin pageCVE-2024-4483 · fixed in 2.2.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
- Feb 28, 2024Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-1282 · affects up to 2.2.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jan 11, 2024Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-7070 · affects up to 2.1.9 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Nov 22, 2023Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Jannis Thuemmig Email Encoder plugin <= 2.1.8 versions.CVE-2023-47821 · affects up to 2.1.8 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
- Aug 29, 2023Email Encoder: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-4599 · affects up to 2.1.8 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Sep 6, 2021Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses: Has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the dataCVE-2021-24599 · fixed in 2.1.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.1
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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