The Font Awesome More Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.5 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.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57560 The Font Awesome More Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'icon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.5 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.
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History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Font Awesome More Icons <= 3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:36:58.728Z

Reserved: 2023-09-27T15:50:23.159Z

Link: CVE-2023-5232

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:08.543Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-28T05:15:46.437

Modified: 2026-04-08T17:17:06.560

Link: CVE-2023-5232

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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