Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Priority LOW 28CWE-79Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0033 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-14983
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37
References
Other 10
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c495d7f6-6d4a-4b1a-90f9-5273e7773d7a?source=cve
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php#L332
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php#L337
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php#L361
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php#L374
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php#L361
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php#L376
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v6.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome/trunk/fields/acf-font-awesome-v7.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3435775%40advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome&new=3435775%40advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Sources
- CVE-2025-14983 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-14983 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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