Known vulnerabilities in Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons

An easy to use lightweight SVG icons plugin with over 1500+ brand icons. Use these icons in your menus, widgets, posts, or pages.

2Reported vulnerabilities

5.4Highest CVSS score

2.8.4Latest version

3,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons to 2.7.8 or later. 1 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: November 20, 2023 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.3.10 / View on wordpress.org

This plugin has not been updated in over two years. New vulnerabilities may never be fixed. Consider an alternative.

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-2021-24503	Medium 5.4	0.6%	Before 2.7.8	`2.7.8`	August 2, 2021
CVE-2025-31786	Medium 5.3	0.5%	2.8.4 and earlier	—	April 1, 2025

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