CVE-2025-0627 AI Autotagger < 3.30.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

What is CVE-2025-0627?

CVE-2025-0627 is a low-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager, published on 28 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager WordPress plugin before 3.30.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widgets settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0627?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Taxopress Taxopress.

How do I fix CVE-2025-0627?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0627 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2025-0627 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-0627 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager

• CVE-2025-13359 Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-2168 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 5.5
• CVE-2023-2169 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 5.5
• CVE-2023-2170 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 5.5
• CVE-2021-24444 TaxoPress < 3.0.7.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 4.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-4p64-hxgr-8p2m.