CVE-2023-5233

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-5233 · Published 28/09/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-5233 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting font awesome integration (fontawesome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
font awesome integration fontawesome	`≤ 5.0`	No fix yet

Description

The Font Awesome Integration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fawesome' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 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.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-integration/tags/5.0/font-awesome-integration.php · Third Party Advisory
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2791f48-895f-4099-87ec-41aaac2494a2 · Third Party Advisory

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