# Ultimate Category Excluder

> Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `ultimate-category-excluder`
- Author: Marios Alexandrou
- Version: 1.7
- Active installs: 50,000+
- Last update: 2026-08-20 (3 months ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.0, PHP any
- Tags: exclude categories, exclude category, hidden category, hide categories, hide category
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 3 months ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

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## Known vulnerabilities

- 2020-01-08 HIGH: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 1.1). CVE-2020-35135, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e30d2ca-1918-4fcf-979e-7cae0d84529e?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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