CVE-2026-5305 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Email Address Encoder WordPress plugin before 1.0.25, email-encoder-premium WordPress plugin before 0.3.12 does not properly handle email replacement, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00177.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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Vendors	Products

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bf59610b-98ba-4c05-b2fc-85c163e9a389/

History

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Email Address Encoder WordPress plugin before 1.0.25, email-encoder-premium WordPress plugin before 0.3.12 does not properly handle email replacement, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attacks
Title		Email Address Encoder (Free < 1.0.25, Premium < 0.3.12) - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bf59610b-98ba-4c05-b2fc-85c163e9a389/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-06-25T06:00:02.068Z

Updated: 2026-06-25T12:39:14.030Z

Reserved: 2026-04-01T08:24:23.721Z

Link: CVE-2026-5305

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-25T12:38:02.736Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-25T07:30:17Z

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