FKIE_CVE-2023-5127

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-10-25 18:17 - Updated: 2026-04-08 18:18
Severity
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The WP Font Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 1.7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on 'icon' user supplied attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L101Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L53Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L55Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L68Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L70Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L83Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L85Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L99Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3111048%40wp-font-awesome&new=3111048%40wp-font-awesome&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59ee0b56-c11f-4951-aac0-8344200e4484?source=cveThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L101Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L53Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L55Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L68Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L70Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L83Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L85Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L99Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59ee0b56-c11f-4951-aac0-8344200e4484?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wp_font_awesome_project wp_font_awesome *
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