Email Address Obfuscation
Email Address Obfuscation has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Email Address Obfuscation has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by theviper17y. Email Address Obfuscation is installed on roughly 2,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
CVE-2024-11935Email Address Obfuscation <= 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via class Parameter
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Email Address Obfuscation
Author
Neotrendy
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting bots, by converting email addresses characters to HTML entities. Hide email from Spam Bots using a shortcode [obfuscate_email] and built-in WordPress function antispambot(). Features Obfuscate plain email address Obfuscate href mailto link in HTML anchor element Support for custom CSS class Support for email subject Usage Obfuscate plain email address [obfuscate_email email="your@email.com"] Create clickable email address [obfuscate_email email="your@email.com" link=true] Add CSS class to the HTML anchor element [obfuscate_email email="your@email.com" link=true class="my-class another-class"] Obfuscate email address with email subject [obfuscate_email email='your@email.com?subject=My custom email subject'] Shortcode parameter email required – Email address. link optional – Set true if you want to create clickable email address. class optional – Add space separated list of classes.
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