What is CVE-2023-5233?

CVE-2023-5233 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fontawesome Font Awesome Integration, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-09-28.

How severe is CVE-2023-5233?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-5233 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Fontawesome Font Awesome Integration

CVE-2023-5233

The Font Awesome Integration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'fawesome' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (29.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Fontawesome Font_awesome_integration
Mcostales84 Font Awesome Integration — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5233?: CVE-2023-5233 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fontawesome Font Awesome Integration, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-09-28.
How severe is CVE-2023-5233?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5233 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.