Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
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).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2025-13359
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 04:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 3 Dec 2025, 13:52 UTC
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).
osv:CVE-2025-13359
Complete source record
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"summary": "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).",
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