PT-2023-31961 · WordPress · Font Awesome More Icons

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-27 · Updated 2023-10-13 · CVE-2023-5232

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 More Icons plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.5

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the icon shortcode 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 More Icons plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.5, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the icon shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5232

Affected Products

Font Awesome More Icons

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5232 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5232 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/71183 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58702 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58663 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15947764-a070-4715-bd44-cb79b62ed59d?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1707344734354563180 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1707253355007848730 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-more-icons/tags/3.5/plugin.php#L82 · Note