Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4478

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 16 January 2023

Published
16 January 2023
Modified
07 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0020 41.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4478 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Fontawesome Font Awesome. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 41.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fontawesome
font awesome
≤ 4.3.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References