CVE-2025-14478

high

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

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b2971aa0-8287-4142-bd04-7aec1ed92e7b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439643/demo-importer-plus/trunk/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demo-importer-plus/trunk/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php#L88

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demo-importer-plus/tags/2.0.6/inc/importers/class-demo-importer-plus-sites-helper.php#L88

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-01-17

Updated: 2026-01-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00075