CVE-2025-13922 SQL injection in Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI
Authenticated contributors can exploit SQL injection in the AI preview endpoint to extract database information or cause performance issues.
- 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-2025-13922?
CVE-2025-13922 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI, published on 6 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 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.
Weakness: CWE-89
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13922?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13922?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13922 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.
Is CVE-2025-13922 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13922 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jmrr-6c39-fwgp.