Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-14983
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published February 18, 2026
Last Updated February 19, 2026
Researcher JongHwan Shin (zzzsleep)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-custom-fields-font-awesome (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.1
Patched Version
  • 5.0.2
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