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CVE-2022-3829: Font Awesome 4 Menus <= 4.7.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Font Awesome 4 Menus WordPress plugin through 4.7.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• Font Awesome 4 Menus: through 4.7.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/684941ad-541f-43f9-a7ef-d26c0f4e6e21/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/684941ad-541f-43f9-a7ef-d26c0f4e6e21/

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