Vulnerability Details 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 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 24.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.4
References
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2023-4718
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:-
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:4.7.0