CVE-2023-0271

The WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - contact@wpscan.com

Published

2023-02-21

Last modified

2025-03-14

Affected products

• Wp Font Awesome (Unknown)
• Wp Font Awesome (Wp Font Awesome Project)

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fd7aaf06-4be7-48d6-83a1-cd5cd6c3d9c2