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Category Icon · Version history

Category Icon changelog and version history

Latest version
1.0.5
Aug 13, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
8
since 2019
In the last year
3
about one every 122 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20191 release
  • 20211 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20252 releases
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. Category Icon 1.0.5Latest

    • Declared compatibility with WordPress 7.1.

  2. Category Icon 1.0.4

    • Updated WordPress compatibility metadata for WordPress 7.0.
    • Fixed Plugin Check errors in the release package.
    • Hardened taxonomy term meta saving with explicit nonce and capability checks.
    • Escaped taxonomy admin output and sanitized settings values.
    • Scoped admin assets and SVG upload handling to Category Icon taxonomy screens.
    • Replaced the legacy SVG media modal output buffer with attachment response data.

20252 releases

  1. Category Icon 1.0.3

    • Security: sanitize and strictly validate term icon / image IDs on save and escape them on output to prevent XSS via the term_icon_value and term_image_value fields, even for Editor-level users.

  2. Category Icon 1.0.2

    • Security: patched blind XXE/SSRF in SVG upload flow – external entity loading and network access are now disabled; malformed SVGs are rejected (fail-closed).

20241 release

  1. Category Icon 1.0.1

    • Added sanitization for SVG uploads to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
    • Implemented secure file naming for uploaded SVG files by appending a random suffix to filenames.
    • Enhanced upload handling to ensure SVG files are sanitized in place without altering the original upload path.
    • Improved compatibility with WordPress file upload checks.

20221 release

  1. Category Icon 1.0.0

    • Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.9
    • Add getter functions for term icon and image.
    • Update build process.
    • Clarify description and instructions about what this plugin does and doesn’t do.

20211 release

  1. Category Icon 0.7.1

    • Improve compatibility with WordPress 5.7

20191 release

  1. Category Icon 0.7.0

    • We did several compatibility checks with Gutenberg so everything will work just fine
    • Solved an issue where Category-Icon was having a conflict with other plugins in the Dashboard

Questions about Category Icon’s releases

What is the latest version of Category Icon?

1.0.5, released on Aug 13, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Category Icon updated?

3 releases in the last year, about one every 122 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from May 2019.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Category Icon’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.