Vulnerability · Published Dec 6, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2025-13922Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via ORDER BY Clause

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity SQL injection in Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI from stevejburge. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
stevejburge	Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI	0 – through 3.40.1

Weakness: CWE-89 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Official description

Affected products (as reported)

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