CVE-2022-4478: Fontawesome Font Awesome

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fontawesome Font Awesome: before 4.3.2 (fixed in 4.3.2)

Published 2023-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.