PT-2023-30347 · WordPress · Font Awesome 4 Menus

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-02 · Updated 2023-09-27 · CVE-2023-4718

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.7.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the fa and fa-stack shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.7.0: Update to a version higher than 4.7.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the fa and fa-stack shortcodes to minimize the risk of exploitation. Restrict contributor-level and above permissions to trusted users only.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-4718

Affected Products

Font Awesome 4 Menus

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4718 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4718 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/NUYTSTECH/status/1706974480466362460 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L197 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc59510c-6eaf-4526-8acb-c07e39923ad9?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-4-menus/trunk/n9m-font-awesome-4.php?rev=1526295#L214 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/69699 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/57755 · Telegram Post