Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Blind XML External Entity Injection via SVG File Upload

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CVE CVE-2025-14478
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published January 16, 2026
Last Updated January 17, 2026
Researcher bosz
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug demo-importer-plus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.9
Patched Version
  • 2.0.10
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