Medium severity · published Nov 8, 2025
CVE-2025-11972
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) SQL Injection
4.9
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TC
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI · stevejburge
through 3.40.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
TC
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
stevejburge
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11972
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11972
github.com
https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/commit/fd35042973439719b4304b336663e46f13f1533a
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e36f3a0-2215-4c1c-99c4-9405ad7b913b?source=cve
github.com
https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/issues/2827
github.com
https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/pull/2828
wordpress.org
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/#developers
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