Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.9 — Authenticated (Author+) Blind XML External Entity Injection via SVG File Upload
CVE-2025-14478Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.0.9Update to 2.0.10 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Demo Importer Plus demo-importer-plus
- Affected≤ 2.0.9
- Patched in2.0.10
Update to 2.0.10 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.9. Version 2.0.10 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Demo Importer Plus.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.0.10, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Demo Importer Plus to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to bosz.
The Demo Importer Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.9 via the SVG file upload functionality. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to achieve code execution in vulnerable configurations. This only impacts sites on versions of PHP older than 8.0.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Demo Importer Plus
All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.0.8Update to 2.0.9 | CVE-2025-69091 | |
| High8.8 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Site Reset and Privilege Escalation ≤2.0.8Update to 2.0.9 | CVE-2025-14364 | |
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload via WXR Upload Bypass ≤2.0.6Update to 2.0.7 | CVE-2025-13066 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload ≤2.0.1Update to 2.0.2 | CVE-2024-9172 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.0.8Update to 2.0.9
- High8.8Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Site Reset and Privilege Escalation
≤2.0.8Update to 2.0.9
- High8.8Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload via WXR Upload Bypass
≤2.0.6Update to 2.0.7
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload
≤2.0.1Update to 2.0.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.