diff --git a/packages/validators/package.json b/packages/validators/package.json
index 94c1df3..2dc4757 100644
--- a/packages/validators/package.json
+++ b/packages/validators/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@opengovsg/starter-kitty-validators",
-  "version": "1.1.0",
+  "version": "1.1.1",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",
   "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
   "files": [
diff --git a/packages/validators/src/__tests__/email.test.ts b/packages/validators/src/__tests__/email.test.ts
index 80c8232..07d1ed6 100644
--- a/packages/validators/src/__tests__/email.test.ts
+++ b/packages/validators/src/__tests__/email.test.ts
@@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ describe('EmailValidator with default options', () => {
     expect(() => schema.parse('postmaster@[123.123.123.123]')).toThrowError(
       ZodError,
     )
+
+    // Encoded-word
+    // https://portswigger.net/research/splitting-the-email-atom
+    expect(() =>
+      schema.parse('=?iso-8859-1?q?=61=62=63?=collab@psres.net'),
+    ).toThrowError(ZodError)
+
+    expect(() =>
+      schema.parse('=?utf-7?b?JkFHWUFid0J2QUdJQVlRQnkt?=@psres.net'),
+    ).toThrowError(ZodError)
+
+    expect(() =>
+      schema.parse('=?x?q?collab=40invalid.com=3e=00?=open.gov.sg'),
+    ).toThrowError(ZodError)
   })
 
   it('should clean up unnecessary whitespace', () => {
diff --git a/packages/validators/src/email/consts.ts b/packages/validators/src/email/consts.ts
index be1b1ca..b00b6d2 100644
--- a/packages/validators/src/email/consts.ts
+++ b/packages/validators/src/email/consts.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 export const MAX_LOCAL_LENGTH = 64
 export const MAX_DOMAIN_LENGTH = 255
+export const ENCODED_WORD_REGEX = /=[?].+[?]=/
diff --git a/packages/validators/src/email/utils.ts b/packages/validators/src/email/utils.ts
index 9cae6a9..5faab50 100644
--- a/packages/validators/src/email/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/validators/src/email/utils.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import { ParsedMailbox } from 'email-addresses'
 
-import { MAX_DOMAIN_LENGTH, MAX_LOCAL_LENGTH } from './consts'
+import {
+  ENCODED_WORD_REGEX,
+  MAX_DOMAIN_LENGTH,
+  MAX_LOCAL_LENGTH,
+} from './consts'
 import { ParsedEmailValidatorOptions } from './options'
 
 export const isValidEmail = (
@@ -17,6 +21,11 @@ export const isValidEmail = (
   if (whitelisted.length === 0) {
     return true
   }
+
+  if (ENCODED_WORD_REGEX.test(email.address)) {
+    return false
+  }
+
   return isWhitelistedDomain(domain, whitelisted)
 }