Known vulnerabilities in Font Awesome

The official way to use Font Awesome Free or Pro icons on your WordPress site, brought to you by the Font Awesome team.

2Reported vulnerabilities

6.5Highest CVSS score

5.2.1Latest version

400,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Font Awesome to 4.3.2 or later. 2 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 13, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.1 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2022-4478	Medium 5.4	0.5%	Before 4.3.2	`4.3.2`	January 16, 2023
WF-4783eff5-b7cf-4342-b762-85f745c38ec8	Medium 6.5	—	4.0.0-rc15 to 4.0.0-rc15 (inclusive) 4.0.0-rc16 to 4.0.0-rc16 (inclusive)	`4.0.0-rc17`	March 11, 2020

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.