The WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.32.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
CVE-2025-0627 is a medium severity with CVSS 4.4 Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms. It affects Versions up to 3.32.0 and is fixed in 3.33.0.
CVE-2025-0627 is tracked for the Plugin Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms as medium severity with CVSS 4.4. The affected range is Versions up to 3.32.0. Update Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms to 3.33.0 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
simple-tags
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2025-0627 |
| Patched Versions |
3.33.0
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 3.32.0
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