CVE-2023-0271

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

EPSS

<1%p39

Published

Feb 21, 2023 (Feb 21, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: wp font awesome project
Products: wp font awesome
Ecosystems: WordPress
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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