CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-4478

Published: Jan 16, 2023 | Modified: Apr 07, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
root.io minimus.io echohq.com

The Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 4.3.2 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Font_awesome Fontawesome * 4.3.2 (excluding)

References