CVE-2026-5306 (GCVE-0-2026-5306)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-28 06:00 – Updated: 2026-04-28 14:14
VLAI?
Title
Check & Log Email < 2.0.13 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Summary
The Check & Log Email WordPress plugin before 2.0.13 does not properly handle email replacement, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attacks when the email encoder setting is enabled
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/97908c15-6e7a-42… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Check & Log Email Affected: 0 , < 2.0.13 (semver)
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Credits
Matthew Rollings WPScan
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