CVE-2023-0271

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Description

The WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fd7aaf06-4be7-48d6-83a1-cd5cd6c3d9c2

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2023-02-21

Updated: 2023-02-28

Type: CWE-79

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Impact Score: 2.7

Exploitability Score: 2.3

Severity: MEDIUM