Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-4718

Description

The Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fa' and 'fa-stack' shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 4.7.0 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

Newnine/Font Awesome 4 Menus
cpe:2.3:a:newnine:font_awesome_4_menus:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=4.7.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.phpnvdProduct
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.phpnvdProduct

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