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Publication date: 2025-12-03

Last updated on: 2025-12-05

Assigner: Wordfence

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.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-12-03

Last Modified

2025-12-05

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-12-03

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-13354

EUVD

EUVD-2025-200971

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
taxopress	taxopress	to 3.41.0 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-862	The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability exists in the Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress, where the plugin fails to properly verify user authorization in the "taxopress_merge_terms_batch" function. As a result, authenticated users with subscriber level access or higher can bypass authorization controls to merge or delete arbitrary taxonomy terms.

Impact Analysis

An attacker with subscriber level access or above can exploit this vulnerability to merge or delete arbitrary taxonomy terms, potentially disrupting the organization and categorization of content within the WordPress site. This could lead to content mismanagement or loss of important taxonomy data.

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