Known vulnerabilities in Colorful Categories

New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.

1Reported vulnerabilities

6.5Highest CVSS score

2.0.21Latest version

2,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Colorful Categories to 2.0.15 or later. 1 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: September 30, 2025 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.8.8 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2021-24802	Medium 6.5	0.5%	Before 2.0.15	`2.0.15`	November 17, 2021

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.