---
id: CVE-2025-11972
title: >-
  The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all
  versions up to, and including, 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user
  …
summary: >-
  The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all
  versions up to, and including, 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user
  …
severity: medium
cvss: 4.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-89
published: '2025-11-08'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T21:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11972'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/commit/fd35042973439719b4304b336663e46f13f1533a
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e36f3a0-2215-4c1c-99c4-9405ad7b913b?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/issues/2827'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://github.com/TaxoPress/TaxoPress/pull/2828'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
  - url: 'https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/#developers'
    label: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00307
epssPercentile: 0.21574
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T21:54:14.985Z'
---

## Overview

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'post_types' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.40.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query.  This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.