In the file
plugins/category-icons-lite/caticons-lite.class.php I patched the code as follows:
...
WHERE meta_key = %s";
//WHERE meta_key = '".esc_sql($this->meta_key).'\'';
$k = $this->meta_key;
$results = wp_cache_get( 'categoryiconslite_results');
if ( false === $results ) { // put in cache the result
$results = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare($query, $k) );
and the plugin started to work again.
(In the Query string changed the last line containing ‘WHERE meta_key…’ and added the variable $k which is given to the $wpdb->prepare function.
Hopefully this helps.