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Jun 06, 2024

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2021-24444

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2021-24444

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
max 3.4.5.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2168

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-2168

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
max 3.6.5.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2170

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-2170

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
max 3.4.5.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2024-2830

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-2830

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
max 3.20.0.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2169

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-2169

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
max 3.6.5.
Status
vulnerable
May 08, 2025

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-0627

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-0627

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
max 3.30.0.
Status
vulnerable
Aug 16, 2025

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-55710

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-55710

Date
Aug 15, 2025
Research Description
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Steve Burge TaxoPress allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects TaxoPress: from n/a through 3.37.2.
Affected versions
max 3.37.3.
Status
vulnerable
Dec 10, 2025

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-11972

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-11972

Date
Nov 08, 2025
Research Description
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected versions
max 3.40.1.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-13359

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-13359

Date
Dec 03, 2025
Research Description
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the "getTermsForAjax" function in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database granted they have metabox access for the taxonomy (enabled by default for contributors).
Affected versions
max 3.41.0.
Status
vulnerable

WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-13354

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-13354

Date
Dec 03, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
max 3.41.0.
Status
vulnerable