CVE-2022-4478

Published Jan 16, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.4

Overview

Description: The Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 4.3.2 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 2.3
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:fontawesome:font_awesome:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "985D7A14-C27D-4BBD-BEF6-764A6D4872D8",
            "versionEndExcluding": "4.3.2"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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