CVE-2023-4718
Font Awesome 4 Menus <= 4.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
new-nine · Font Awesome 4 Menus
- affected ≤ 4.7.0
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L197 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L214 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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