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).
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
6.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-89
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