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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-13354
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 3, 2025
Last Updated December 3, 2025
Researcher type5afe
Description

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.

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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