Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI: SQL injection
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
- Plugin slug
simple-tags- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 06, 2025
This CVE was published Dec 06, 2025 and is one of 9 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N