Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Taxonomy Term Manipulation

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-13354",
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    "title": "Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Taxonomy Term Manipulation",
    "summary": "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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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.523303344Z",
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13354",
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