PoC Index

CVE-2022-4478

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 0.5%

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.

CVSS v3.1
5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3.1
5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 39th percentile
Published
2023-01-16
Updated
2025-04-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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