Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4512

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 13 February 2023

Published
13 February 2023
Modified
21 March 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 0.0065 71.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4512 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Better Font Awesome Project Better Font Awesome. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Better Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 2.0.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above…

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to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

better font awesome project
better font awesome
≤ 2.0.4

Mitigating Controls

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

References