Colorlib develops a modest portfolio of WordPress themes and plugins, primarily including design and functionality extensions such as Activello, Fancybox, Bonkers, and Illdy that are distributed to a broad audience of website builders. The recurring vulnerability profile centers on web-application input-handling and authorization issues—cross-site scripting, code injection, improper access control, and missing authorization—which are endemic to themes and plugins that process user content and interact with WordPress permission models, and the vendor's disclosures have an elevated tendency toward public exploit availability. Defenders should treat Colorlib theme and plugin updates as routine security maintenance for WordPress deployments; current severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Colorlib over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (10 CVEs).
10 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2020-36708CRITICAL The following themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Function Injections in versions up to and including Shapely <= 1.2.7, NewsMag <= 2.4.1, Activello <= 1.4.0, Illdy <= 2.1.4, All | Jun 7, 2023 | 9.8 | 74 | NO | YES |
CVE-2015-1494MEDIUM The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an m | Feb 17, 2015 | 4.3 | 23 | NO | YES |
CVE-2020-36721MEDIUM The Brilliance <= 1.2.7, Activello <= 1.4.0, and Newspaper X <= 1.3.1 themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Plugin Activation/Deactivation. This is due to the 'activello_activate_ | Jun 7, 2023 | 6.5 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-45849MEDIUM Auth. (subscriber+) Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Silkalns Activello theme <= 1.4.4 versions. | Apr 16, 2023 | 5.4 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-45358MEDIUM Auth. (subscriber+) Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Silkalns Activello theme <= 1.4.4 versions. | Apr 13, 2023 | 5.4 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-3662MEDIUM The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.3.6 does not escape captions and titles attributes before using them to populate galleries' caption fields. The issue was received as a C | Jun 3, 2025 | 6.1 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-1473MEDIUM The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.99 via the REST API. This makes | Mar 20, 2024 | 5.3 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-0662MEDIUM The FancyBox for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions 3.0.2 to 3.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization an | Apr 9, 2024 | 4.8 | 16 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-49321MEDIUM Missing Authorization vulnerability in colorlibplugins Simple Custom Post Order simple-custom-post-order allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.Thi | Oct 21, 2024 | 4.3 | 15 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-1945MEDIUM The Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode by Colorlib WordPress plugin before 1.0.99 does not sanitize and escape some settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Sto | Jun 20, 2022 | 4.8 | 15 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (10 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Colorlib.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Colorlib — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.