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

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CVE CVE-2025-13922
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published December 5, 2025
Last Updated February 4, 2026
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-tags (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.40.1
Patched Version
  • 3.41.0
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