CVE-2025-13922 (GCVE-0-2025-13922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-06 04:37 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:33
VLAI
Title
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI <= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via ORDER BY Clause
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-09 17:00 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2465 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
stevejburge Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.40.1 (semver)
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
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