CVE-2023-0271: Wp Font Awesome Project Wp Font Awesome

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

The WP Font Awesome WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Wp Font Awesome Project Wp Font Awesome: before 1.7.9 (fixed in 1.7.9)

Published 2023-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.