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1 vulnerability found for WP Font Awesome by zayedbaloch
CVE-2023-5127 (GCVE-0-2023-5127)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-24 13:52
Modified
2026-04-08 16:54
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zayedbaloch | WP Font Awesome |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.7.9 |
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