Vulnerabilities and security researches forsimple-tags simple-tags

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2021-24444
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Aug 02, 2021
Research Description: The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-2168
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Research Description: The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Suggest Terms Title field in versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-2170
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Research Description: The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Related Posts functionality in versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-2830
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Apr 04, 2024
Research Description: The WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'st_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-2169
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Research Description: The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Related Posts functionality in versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

May 08, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-0627
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Application: WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger
Date: Apr 28, 2025
Research Description: The WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager WordPress plugin before 3.30.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widgets settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable