Known vulnerabilities in Email Address Encoder

A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.

3Reported vulnerabilities

7.2Highest CVSS score

1.0.25Latest version

100,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Email Address Encoder to 1.0.25 or later. 3 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: April 12, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2026-5305	High 7.2	0.5%	Before 1.0.25	`1.0.25`	June 4, 2026
CVE-2023-48765	Medium 6.4	0.4%	1.0.22 to 1.0.22 (inclusive)	`1.0.23`	November 28, 2023
CVE-2024-43927	Medium 4.3	0.2%	1.0.23 and earlier	`1.0.24`	August 26, 2024

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.