CVE-2023-4718
Font Awesome 4 Menus <= 4.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.4 Medium
- Published
- Sep 2, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 1, 2023
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Font Awesome 4 Menusnew-nine |
|
References
- 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
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