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CVE-2025-13922

MEDIUM 6.5

Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via ORDER BY Clause

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'existing_terms_orderby' parameter in the AI preview AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of SQL query parameterization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above who have AI metabox permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, cause performance degradation, or enable data inference through time-based techniques.

CWE CWE-89
Vendor stevejburge
Product tag, category, and taxonomy manager – ai autotagger with openai
Published Dec 6, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

stevejburge / Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
0 ≤ 3.40.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f40cc632-c6af-4c8b-a455-76319f7fe151?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/tags/3.40.1/inc/class.admin.php#L1406 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/tags/3.40.1/modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php#L180 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3408243%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=3388829%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file17 research.cleantalk.org: https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-13922/

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev