VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-0271

CVSS score5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.47%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-02-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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