WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Font Awesome 4 Menus <= 4.7.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

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

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
font-awesome-4-menus
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-4718

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
6d2c7f2a-1528-4e00-92c0-113e97e237ad

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-09-01 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-09-07 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-09-07 (about 2 years ago)

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