CVE-2023-5232 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-5232: Font Awesome More Icons <= 3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Vendor Jr00Ck

Product Font Awesome More Icons

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published September 28, 2023

Last update April 8, 2026

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CVSS base score

6.4/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Font Awesome More Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.5 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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 28, 2023 CVE published

April 8, 2026 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5232 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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