CVE-2023-4718
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
02/09/2023
Last modified:
08/04/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 4.7.0 (including) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L197
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L214
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L197
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L214
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9?source=cve



