CVE-2025-13354 Missing authorization in Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
Authenticated subscribers can arbitrarily merge or delete taxonomy terms due to missing authorization checks in the WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-13354?
CVE-2025-13354 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI, published on 3 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13354?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Taxopress Taxopress.
How do I fix CVE-2025-13354?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13354 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-13354 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13354 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
- CVE-2025-13359 Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
- CVE-2023-2168 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2023-2169 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2023-2170 TaxoPress <= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2021-24444 TaxoPress < 3.0.7.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vpf5-h5rh-88hf.