vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: simple-mail-address-encoder: CVE-2019-15833: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 3, 2019
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The Simple Mail Address Encoder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions before 1.7 via the 'fwurl' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Solution

simple-mail-address-encoder-plugin-cve-2019-15833
Title
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