Description
The Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible forauthenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
Problem types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Product status
* (semver)
Timeline
| 2026-02-18: | Disclosed |
Credits
JongHwan Shin
References
www.wordfence.com/...-6d4a-4b1a-90f9-5273e7773d7a?source=cve
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
plugins.svn.wordpress.org/.../fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...-awesome&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=