Colorful Categories

Colorful Categories has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2021; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.3, and the most serious one scores 4.3 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Colorful Categories has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by apple502j. Colorful Categories is installed on roughly 2,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.8.8.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

4.3/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 4.3CVE-2021-24802

Colorful Categories < 2.0.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2021-10-13 00:00	Colorful Categories < 2.0.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Colorful Categories < 2.0.15	`CVE-2021-24802`	4.3 Medium	apple502j	Yes

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Latestv2.0.21

Colorful Categories

Author

Artem P.

4.7(13)

94/100

Last Updated

2025-09-30 (1y ago)

Active Installs

2,000+

Downloads

65,260

Requires WP

4.9+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 6.8.8

Created

2014-09-19 (12y ago)

New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget – make every category in its colour. All colours are stored as term meta variables. Features: custom taxonomies support manually customize colours for each category intelligent (automatic) colours selection different themes easy to customize responsive and flexible widget

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