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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00323.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
zayedbaloch WP Font Awesome unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 1.7.9

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wp_font_awesome_project:wp_font_awesome:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57465 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.
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Solution

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Workaround

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References
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L101 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L53 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L55 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L68 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L70 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L83 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L85 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-font-awesome/trunk/wp-font-awesome.php?rev=2875119#L99 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3111048%40wp-font-awesome&new=3111048%40wp-font-awesome&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59ee0b56-c11f-4951-aac0-8344200e4484?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:54:56.784Z

Reserved: 2023-09-22T15:44:06.480Z

Link: CVE-2023-5127

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:54.000Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-25T18:17:42.887

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:22.917

Link: CVE-2023-5127

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