Font Awesome Integration WordPress Plugin Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Font Awesome Integration plugin for WordPress, affecting versions 5.0 and prior. The issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the 'fawesome' shortcode. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level or higher permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which are executed when users access the affected page.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the page.