TaxoPress <= 3.41.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Tag Modification

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-14371
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 5, 2026
Last Updated February 13, 2026
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the taxopress_ai_add_post_term function in all versions up to, and including, 3.41.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to add or remove taxonomy terms (tags, categories) on any post, including ones they do not own.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-tags (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.41.0
Patched Version
  • 3.42.0
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