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.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
8.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-862
Status
published
Products (2)
stevejburge/Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
< 3.40.1
taxopress/taxopress
< 3.41.0
Published
Dec 03, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026