CVE-2025-13354 (GCVE-0-2025-13354)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-03 13:52 – Updated: 2025-12-03 14:50
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI Affected: * , ≤ 3.40.1 (semver)
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M Indra Purnama
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