CVE-2026-2496
Received Received - Intake

Stored XSS in Ed's Font Awesome WordPress Plugin

Publication date: 2026-03-21

Last updated on: 2026-03-21

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
The Ed's Font Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `eds_font_awesome` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Published
2026-03-21
Last Modified
2026-03-21
Generated
2026-07-06
AI Q&A
2026-03-21
EPSS Evaluated
2026-07-05
NVD
CVE-2026-2496
EUVD
EUVD-2026-13992

Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 2 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
ed's_font_awesome plugin to 2.0 (inc)
waianaeboy702 eds_font_awesome to 2.0 (inc)

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Exploitability

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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

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Executive Summary

The Ed's Font Awesome plugin for WordPress has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in its `eds_font_awesome` shortcode in all versions up to and including 2.0.

This vulnerability exists because the plugin does not properly sanitize or escape user-supplied attributes, allowing attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts.

These injected scripts execute whenever any user accesses the affected page, potentially compromising user security.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can allow authenticated users with contributor-level access or above to inject malicious scripts into pages.

When other users visit these pages, the malicious scripts execute in their browsers, which can lead to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or other malicious actions.

The impact includes loss of data confidentiality and integrity, and potential compromise of user accounts.

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