Description
The Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fa' and 'fa-stack' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 4.7.0 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.
Published: 2023-09-02
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-54566 The Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fa' and 'fa-stack' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 4.7.0 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.
History

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

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

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Title Font Awesome 4 Menus <= 4.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Subscriptions

Newnine Font Awesome 4 Menus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:27:46.867Z

Reserved: 2023-09-01T14:54:50.410Z

Link: CVE-2023-4718

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:37:59.551Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-02T04:15:09.933

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:18:33.873

Link: CVE-2023-4718

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