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CVE-2025-14371: TaxoPress <= 3.41.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Tag Modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the taxopress_ai_add_post_term function in all versions up to, and including, 3.41.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to add or remove taxonomy terms (tags, categories) on any post, including ones they do not own.

Affected products

• stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI: through 3.41.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/tags/3.40.1/modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php#L681
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-14371/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ef51ffb-df1e-442d-abc8-3a0308099a0b?source=cve

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