Medium severity · published Jan 16, 2024
CVE-2022-3829
The Font Awesome 4 Menus WordPress plugin through 4.7.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored…
4.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Font Awesome 4 Menus WordPress plugin through 4.7.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FA
Font Awesome 4 Menus · Newnine
through 4.7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3829
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3829
Exploit
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/684941ad-541f-43f9-a7ef-d26c0f4e6e21/
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