WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

TaxoPress < 3.42.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Tag Modification

Description

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the taxopress_ai_add_post_term function in all versions up to, and including, 3.41.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to add or remove taxonomy terms (tags, categories) on any post, including ones they do not own.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.42.0

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-01-05 (about 5 months ago)
Added
2026-01-05 (about 5 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-02-13 (about 4 months ago)

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