CVE-2025-14478
Demo Importer Plus <= 2.0.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Blind XML External Entity Injection via SVG File Upload
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 61% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
kraftplugins · Demo Importer Plus
- affected ≤ 2.0.9
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b2971aa0-8287-4142-bd04-7aec1ed92e7b?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demo-importer-plus/trunk/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php#L88 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demo-importer-plus/tags/2.0.6/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php#L88 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439643/demo-importer-plus/trunk/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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