Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 12, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-8915

Description

The Category Icon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

Affected products

WordPress/Category Iconreferences
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-icon

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-icon/trunk/category-icon.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167148/nvd
wordpress.org/plugins/category-icon/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1dc4acdc-754f-4ee0-947d-ff0c277e8181nvd

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