CVE-2021-24599
Email Encoder < 2.1.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
- Record
CVE-2021-24599- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Email Encoder < 2.1.2 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
- Record
CVE-2021-24599- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11511 No score
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
- Record
EUVD-2021-11511- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vwmw-f3cr-593g No score
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that...
The Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses WordPress plugin before 2.1.2 has an endpoint that requires no authentication and will render a user supplied value in the HTML response without escaping or sanitizing the data.
- Record
GHSA-vwmw-f3cr-593g- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-24599 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Unknown Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses, published September 6, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.85%, the 58th percentile. No source names a fixed version.