CVE-2025-11972: The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection
Summary
A WordPress plugin called Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI has a SQL injection vulnerability (a security flaw where attackers can insert harmful database commands into the plugin's code) in versions up to 3.40.0. Attackers with Editor-level access or higher can exploit the 'post_types' parameter to extract sensitive information from the website's database because the plugin doesn't properly clean up user input before using it in database queries.
Vulnerability Details
4.9(medium)
EPSS: 0.0%
Classification
Affected Vendors
Related Issues
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11972
First tracked: February 15, 2026 at 08:49 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%