WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field < 6.0.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via JSON Field

Description

The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 5.0.2. This is due to insufficient input validation of JSON field values and unsafe client-side HTML construction in the update_preview() JavaScript function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

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Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Nguyen Cong Quang
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-14 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-05-14 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-15 (about 1 month ago)

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