Category Icon <= 1.0.1 — Authenticated (Author+) XML External Entity Injection
CVE-2025-31039Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.0.1Update to 1.0.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.3
- CVSS
- 6.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Category Icon category-icon
- Affected≤ 1.0.1
- Patched in1.0.2
Update to 1.0.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.1. Version 1.0.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Category Icon.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.0.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Category Icon to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Drew Webber (mcdruid).
The Category Icon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection (XXE) in versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This may make it possible for allow authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to extract sensitive data or achieve code execution in vulnerable configurations.
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
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.0.2Update to 1.0.3 | CVE-2025-68525 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Download ≤1.0.1Update to 1.0.2 | CVE-2025-31825 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload ≤1.0.0Update to 1.0.1 | CVE-2024-8915 |
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.0.2Update to 1.0.3
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Download
≤1.0.1Update to 1.0.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload
≤1.0.0Update to 1.0.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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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.