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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2022-4478 EUVD-2022-51822GHSA-g5wv-c532-7f78

Font Awesome < 4.3.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Published Jan 16, 2023 · Updated Apr 7, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 4.3.2 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Font Awesome < 4.3.2 4.3.2

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