Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-0271

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 21 February 2023

Published
21 February 2023
Modified
14 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
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-2023-0271 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Wp Font Awesome Project Wp 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 WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, 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

wp font awesome project
wp font awesome
≤ 1.7.9

Mitigating Controls

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

References