Vulnerability · Published Feb 19, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-14983Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field from mattkeys. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| mattkeys | Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field | 0 – through 5.0.1 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- 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=