Medium severity · published Sep 2, 2023
CVE-2023-4718
The Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fa' and 'fa-stack' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 4.7.0 due to…
5.4
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fa' and 'fa-stack' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 4.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% 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-2023-4718
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4718
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L197
Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L214
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9?source=cve
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