What is CVE-2022-3829?

CVE-2022-3829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Newnine Font Awesome 4 Menus, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-3829?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-3829 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Newnine Font Awesome 4 Menus

CVE-2022-3829

The Font Awesome 4 Menus WordPress plugin through 4.7.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Newnine Font_awesome_4_menus
Unknown Font Awesome 4 Menus — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-3829?: CVE-2022-3829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Newnine Font Awesome 4 Menus, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-3829?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-3829 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.