CVE-2023-0271
Published: 21 February 2023
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-12350
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)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.