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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2023-0271 EUVD-2023-12350GHSA-mm2f-2cg5-2pwm

WP Font Awesome < 1.7.9 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Published Feb 21, 2023 · Updated Mar 14, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— WP Font Awesome < 1.7.9 1.7.9

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