CVE-2025-14983 Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome <= 5.0.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Font Awesome field, leading to code execution in victim browsers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14983?
CVE-2025-14983 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mattkeys Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field, published on 19 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14983?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14983?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14983 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-14983 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14983 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7fcp-xw65-jj37.