diff --git a/Classes/DataProcessing/AssociatedCategoryProcessor.php b/Classes/DataProcessing/AssociatedCategoryProcessor.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d36c3a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Classes/DataProcessing/AssociatedCategoryProcessor.php
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+<?php
+
+// disabled for now; creates some weird type errors in the queryBuilder statements
+//declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Remind\Headless\DataProcessing;
+
+use FriendsOfTYPO3\Headless\DataProcessing\FilesProcessor;
+use Generator;
+use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Database\ConnectionPool;
+use TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility;
+use TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\ContentObject\ContentObjectRenderer;
+use TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\Resource\FileCollector;
+
+class AssociatedCategoryProcessor extends FilesProcessor
+{
+    // @todo for future: implement option to fetch categories missing parents to construct a category tree
+    private $defaultTargets = [
+        'filesProcessor' => 'files',
+        'categoriesProcessor' => 'categoryFiles',
+        'filesCategoriesRelations' => 'filesCategoriesRelations',
+    ];
+
+    private $uidList = [];
+
+    /**
+     * Process data for categories attached to records.
+     * Uses processedData of previous Processors to fetch their attached categories, if available
+     *
+     * @param ContentObjectRenderer $cObj The content object renderer, which contains data of the content element
+     * @param array $contentObjectConfiguration The configuration of Content Object
+     * @param array $processorConfiguration The configuration of this processor
+     * @param array $processedData Key/value store of processed data (e.g. to be passed to a Fluid View)
+     * @return array the processed data as key/value store
+     */
+    public function process(
+        ContentObjectRenderer $cObj,
+        array $contentObjectConfiguration,
+        array $processorConfiguration,
+        array $processedData
+    ) {
+        if (isset($processorConfiguration['if.']) && !$cObj->checkIf($processorConfiguration['if.'])) {
+            return $processedData;
+        }
+
+        $properties = [];
+
+        if (isset($processorConfiguration['processingConfiguration.'])) {
+            foreach (array_keys((array)$processorConfiguration['processingConfiguration.']) as $key) {
+                $properties[$key] = $cObj->stdWrapValue($key, $processorConfiguration['processingConfiguration.'], null);
+            }
+        }
+
+        $this->contentObjectRenderer = $cObj;
+        $this->processorConfiguration = $processorConfiguration;
+
+
+        // only get the first found value of array key 'as' in $contentObjectConfiguration,
+        // as its bound to be the correct array key to access the processed files of a previous FilesProcessor
+        $filesProcessorTargetArrayName = $this->recursiveFind($contentObjectConfiguration, 'as')->current();
+
+        $categoryProcessorTargetArrayName = $processorConfiguration['as'] ?? $this->defaultTargets['categoriesProcessor'];
+        $relationsTargetArrayName = $processorConfiguration['relationsAs'] ?? $this->defaultTargets['filesCategoriesRelations'];
+
+        // data from files processor:
+        $files = $processedData[$filesProcessorTargetArrayName] ?? $processedData[$this->defaultTargets['filesProcessor']] ?? [];
+
+        $categoryInformation = [];
+
+        foreach ($files as $file) {
+            // compatibility with legacyReturn = 1 ( = file has ['properties'])
+            // files coming from a file collection might have the value of their uidLocal set in ['fileReferenceUid']
+            // with ['uidLocal'] being empty
+            $uid = $file['uidLocal'] ?? $file['properties']['uidLocal'] ?? $file['fileReferenceUid'] ?? $file['properties']['fileReferenceUid'];
+            // consideration: unset ['fileReferenceUid'] for files from file collection and set ['uidLocal'] = $uid
+            // so the output is the same whether the file is coming from a file collection or elsewhere
+            $catInfo = $this->fetchAssociatedCategoryInformation($uid);
+            $categoryInformation[] =
+            [
+                'fileUid' => $uid,
+                'categories' => $catInfo,
+            ];
+        }
+
+        foreach ($this->recursiveFind($categoryInformation, 'frUid') as $uid) {
+            if (!in_array($uid, $this->uidList)) {
+                $this->uidList[] = $uid;
+            }
+        }
+
+        $this->fileObjects = $this->fetchData();
+
+        $processedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName] = $this->processFiles($properties);
+
+        $collectProcessedData = [];
+        // insert array with $categoryProcessorTargetArrayName ( = $processorConfiguration['as'] ) as key to fill it with desired data,
+        // otherwise it will be removed by subsequent methods of parent class
+        $collectProcessedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName] = [];
+        $collectProcessedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName][$filesProcessorTargetArrayName] = $files;
+        $collectProcessedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName][$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName] = $processedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName];
+        $collectProcessedData[$categoryProcessorTargetArrayName][$relationsTargetArrayName] = $categoryInformation;
+
+        return $this->removeDataIfnotAppendInConfiguration($processorConfiguration, $collectProcessedData);
+    }
+
+    protected function fetchData(): array
+    {
+        $fileCollector = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(FileCollector::class);
+        $fileCollector->addFileReferences($this->uidList);
+
+        return $fileCollector->getFiles();
+    }
+
+    protected function fetchAssociatedCategoryInformation($uid): array
+    {
+        $queryBuilder = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ConnectionPool::class)->getQueryBuilderForTable('sys_category');
+
+        // despite what the 12.4 documentation about the query builder says,
+        // AS in select statement cant handle a '.' in the identifier (turns out to be `fr`.`uid` instead of `fr.uid` and causes error)
+        $qb = $queryBuilder
+        ->select('fr.uid AS frUid', 'c.uid', 'c.title', 'c.parent')
+        ->from('sys_category', 'c')
+        ->join(
+            'c',
+            'sys_category_record_mm',
+            'r',
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->and(
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('r.uid_local', $queryBuilder->quoteIdentifier('c.uid')),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('r.fieldname', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('categories')),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('r.tablenames', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('sys_file_metadata')),
+            )
+        )
+        ->join(
+            'r',
+            'sys_file_metadata',
+            'm',
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('r.uid_foreign', $queryBuilder->quoteIdentifier('m.uid'))
+        )
+        ->join(
+            'c',
+            'sys_file_reference',
+            'fr',
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->and(
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('fr.uid_foreign', $queryBuilder->quoteIdentifier('c.uid')),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('fr.fieldname', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('images')),
+                $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('fr.tablenames', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter('sys_category')),
+            )
+        )
+        ->join(
+            'fr',
+            'sys_file',
+            'f',
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('fr.uid_local', $queryBuilder->quoteIdentifier('f.uid')),
+        )
+        ->where(
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('m.file', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter($uid)),
+            $queryBuilder->expr()->eq('c.deleted', $queryBuilder->createNamedParameter(0)),
+        );
+
+        return $qb->executeQuery()->fetchAllAssociative();
+    }
+
+    protected function recursiveFind(array $haystack, string $needle): Generator
+    {
+        foreach ($haystack as $key => $value) {
+            if (is_array($value)) {
+                foreach ($this->recursiveFind($value, $needle) as $subArray) {
+                    yield $subArray;
+                }
+            }
+            if ($key === $needle) {
+                yield $value;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Classes/Event/Listener/EnrichFileDataEventListener.php b/Classes/Event/Listener/EnrichFileDataEventListener.php
index 593d68b..814925a 100644
--- a/Classes/Event/Listener/EnrichFileDataEventListener.php
+++ b/Classes/Event/Listener/EnrichFileDataEventListener.php
@@ -11,7 +11,29 @@ class EnrichFileDataEventListener
     public function __invoke(EnrichFileDataEvent $event): void
     {
         $originalFile = $event->getOriginal();
+        $processedFile = $event->getProcessed();
         $properties = $event->getProperties();
+        $processingConfiguration = $event->getProcessingConfiguration();
+
+        // class ProcessingConfiguration always inserts arrays for these defaultFields, so the following checks shouldnt be necessary, but check anyway
+        $defaultFieldsByType = $processingConfiguration->defaultFieldsByType ?? [];
+        $defaultImageFields = array_merge($defaultFieldsByType, $processingConfiguration->defaultImageFields ?? []);
+        $defaultVideoFields = array_merge($defaultFieldsByType, $processingConfiguration->defaultVideoFields ?? []);
+
+        $defaultFields = match ($properties['type']) {
+            'image' => $defaultImageFields,
+            'video' => $defaultVideoFields,
+            default => $defaultFieldsByType,
+        };
+
+        // processedFile has to be used here instead of originalFile, otherwise pre processed attributes (like extension = svg) get readded
+        foreach ($defaultFields as $field) {
+            if ($processedFile->hasProperty($field) && !isset($properties[$field]))
+            {
+                $properties[$field] = $processedFile->getProperty($field);
+            }
+        }
+
         $properties['lazyLoading'] = (bool) $originalFile->getProperty('tx_headless_lazy_loading') ?? true;
         $event->setProperties($properties);
     }
diff --git a/Configuration/TSConfig/Page/TCEFORM.tsconfig b/Configuration/TSConfig/Page/TCEFORM.tsconfig
index 09ffb95..8f97c83 100644
--- a/Configuration/TSConfig/Page/TCEFORM.tsconfig
+++ b/Configuration/TSConfig/Page/TCEFORM.tsconfig
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ TCEFORM {
             }
         }
         linkToTop.disabled = 1
-        media.disabled = 1
+        media.disabled = 0
         sectionIndex.disabled = 1
         // wait for this issue to be resolved: https://forge.typo3.org/issues/100775
         // Workaround in tt_content.php