CVE-2023-5127

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-5127 · Published 25/10/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-5127 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting wp font awesome (wp font awesome project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.66%, higher than 51.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp font awesome wp_font_awesome_project	`≤ 1.7.9`	No fix yet

Description

The WP Font Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 1.7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on 'icon' user supplied attribute. 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.

References

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