🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-5109

MEDIUM 6.4

WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses <= 3.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wpml_mailto' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 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. This was partially patched in version 3.1.3 and fully patched in version 3.1.4.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor onlineoptimisation
Product wp mailto links – protect email addresses
Published Oct 20, 2023
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

onlineoptimisation / WP Mailto Links – Protect Email Addresses
0 ≤ 3.1.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec882062-0059-47ca-a007-3347e7adb70b?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mailto-links/tags/3.1.2/core/includes/classes/class-wp-mailto-links-validate.php#L582

Credits

István Márton