What is CVE-2021-24599?

CVE-2021-24599 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Webhooks Email Encoder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2021-24599?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-24599 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wp-Webhooks Email Encoder

CVE-2021-24599

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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.009 (54.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wp-webhooks Email_encoder
Unknown Email Encoder – Protect Addresses — versions 2.1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24599?: CVE-2021-24599 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Webhooks Email Encoder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2021-24599?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24599 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.