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CVE-2025-13359: Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-03 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the "getTermsForAjax" function in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database granted they have metabox access for the taxonomy (enabled by default for contributors).

Affected products

• TaxoPress: before 3.41.0 — fixed in 3.41.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: TaxoPress 3.41.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/commit/1097a22181aa10ce55cc9cd5fa8495f7494e18ea
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d9bebdc0-1625-4dc4-8c92-37f379868cd5?source=cve

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