CVE-2025-13922

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

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 6, 2025 at 04:37 AM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTaxoPress

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

TaxoPress· Stevejburgewordpress-plugin
90%
0 ≤ v ≤ 3.40.10

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

6.5MEDIUMWordfence
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StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-89

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