SQL injection in stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based blind SQL Injection via the 'existing_terms_orderby' parameter in the AI preview AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of SQL query parameterization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above who have AI metabox permissions, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database, cause performance degradation, or enable data inference through time-based techniques.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stevejburge | Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI | up to 3.40.1 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI Vendorstevejburge Affected up to 3.40.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:taxopress:taxopress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | stevejburge |
- cpe:2.3:a:taxopress:taxopress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·stevejburge
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-13922
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jmrr-6c39-fwgp
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f40cc632-c6af-4c8b-a455-76319f7fe151?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/tags/3.40.1/inc/class.admin.php#L1406
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/tags/3.40.1/modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php#L180
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3408243%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=3388829%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file17
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-13922/
More stevejburge vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-00527 AI Autotagger < 3.30.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1LOW 3.5
- TI-2026-52002 WordPress TaxoPress plugin <= 3.51.0 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2025-12211 Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-02640 Cross-site scripting in stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2022-04562 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
- TI-2021-06734 TaxoPress < 3.0.7.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
Sources
- CVE-2025-13922 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-13922 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jmrr-6c39-fwgp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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