Vulnerabilities and security researches forsimple-tags simple-tags
Direction: ascendingJun 06, 2024
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2021-24444
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.4.5.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2168
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.6.5.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2170
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.4.5.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2024-2830
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.20.0.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2023-2169
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.6.5.
- Status
-
vulnerable
May 08, 2025
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-0627
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.30.0.
- Status
-
vulnerable
Aug 16, 2025
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-55710
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.37.3.
- Status
-
vulnerable
Dec 10, 2025
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-11972
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.40.1.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-13359
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.41.0.
- Status
-
vulnerable
WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger # CVE-2025-13354
- CVE, Research URL
- 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
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max 3.41.0.
- Status
-
vulnerable