PT-2023-31962 · WordPress · Font Awesome Integration

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-27 · Updated 2023-10-11 · CVE-2023-5233

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 Integration plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 5.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fawesome' 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 Integration plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 5.0, consider disabling the 'fawesome' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use the 'fawesome' shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script injection. Avoid using the 'fawesome' shortcode in pages until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5233

Affected Products

Font Awesome Integration

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5233 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5233 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58701 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1707346253451862493 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/font-awesome-integration/tags/5.0/font-awesome-integration.php#L48 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1707253352831066404 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58662 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/71185 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2791f48-895f-4099-87ec-41aaac2494a2?source=cve · Note