WP Font Awesome

WP Font Awesome has 2 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2023; all 2 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10. 2023 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 2 of the records (100%).

Every one of the 2 issues recorded for WP Font Awesome has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

All of these findings were reported by István Márton. WP Font Awesome is installed on roughly 10,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.6.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2023-5127

WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

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Vulnerability Records

2 records


2023-10-23 00:00	WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.9	`CVE-2023-5127`	6.4 Medium	István Márton	Yes
2023-01-24 00:00	WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode WP Font Awesome <= 1.7.8	`CVE-2023-0271`	6.4 Medium	István Márton	Yes

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Latestv1.8.0

WP Font Awesome

Author

Zayed Baloch

4.9(9)

98/100

Last Updated

2024-07-09 (2y ago)

Active Installs

10,000+

Downloads

154,046

Requires WP

3.2+

Requires PHP

5.6+

Tested up to

WP 6.6.7

Created

2015-08-06 (11y ago)

This plugin allows you to easily embed Font Awesome icon to your website using HTML or built-in shortcode handlers. Features Shortcode support. Example: For Font Awesome 5 [wpfa5s icon=""], [wpfa5r icon=""], [wpfab icon=""], and for Font Awesome 4.7+ [wpfa icon=""] Use Larger Icon: [wpfa icon="" size="2x"]. Sizes: xs, sm, lg, 2x, 3x, 5x, 7x, 10x Add Font Awesome icon in Menu with shortcode. Support shortocde in Widgets. Support post and page title. Font Awesome version 6 Support Font Awesome version 5.+ and 4.7.0 Add Font Awesome icon from editor Toolbar button. Shortcodes Introduced three new shortcode for Font Awesome support. Font Awesome v6 & v5 [wpfa5s icon=”home”] for Solid style. [wpfa5r icon=”user”] for Regular style. support only in few icon. [wpfa5b icon=”wordpress”] for Brands. Font Awesome 4.7+ [wpfa icon=””]. Note The fa prefix has been deprecated in version 5. The new default is the fas solid style far regular style and the fab style for brands. WP Font Awesome plugin still support Font Awesome version 4

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