CVE-2023-5232: Font Awesome More Icons <= 3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Font Awesome More Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

jr00ck Font Awesome More Icons: through 3.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-more-icons/tags/3.5/plugin.php#L82
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15947764-a070-4715-bd44-cb79b62ed59d?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-more-icons/tags/3.5/plugin.php#L82
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15947764-a070-4715-bd44-cb79b62ed59d?source=cve

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