The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the "taxopress_merge_terms_batch" function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to merge or delete arbitrary taxonomy terms.
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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Taxopress
Taxopress taxopress
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:taxopress:taxopress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Taxopress
Taxopress taxopress

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the "taxopress_merge_terms_batch" function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber level access and above, to merge or delete arbitrary taxonomy terms.
Title Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Taxonomy Term Manipulation
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-03T14:50:39.039Z

Reserved: 2025-11-18T11:43:32.191Z

Link: CVE-2025-13354

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-03T14:50:36.634Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-12-03T14:15:46.930

Modified: 2025-12-05T18:41:56.647

Link: CVE-2025-13354

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-04T16:44:10Z

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