CVE-2025-13354The 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.
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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.
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-862
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 18, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
taxopress taxopress taxopress:taxopress | before 3.41.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/commit/5eb2cee861ebd109152eea968aca0259c078c8b0patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05c1ee52-02c9-440b-9269-14ea8b73be45?source=cvethird-party-advisory
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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