CVE-2022-4478

The Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 4.3.2 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - contact@wpscan.com

Published

2023-01-16

Last modified

2025-04-07

Affected products

• Font Awesome (Fontawesome)
• Font Awesome (Unknown)

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4de75de5-e557-46df-9675-e3f0220f4003