Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms has 16 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2021 and 2026; all 16 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 5.3, and the most serious one scores 6.6 out of 10. 2025 was the busiest year with 6 disclosures.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 7 of the records (44%). Other recurring categories include SQL Injection, Missing Authorization.
Every one of the 16 issues recorded for Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.
11 independent researchers contributed these findings, most of them (3) reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev. Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms is installed on roughly 40,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
CVE-2026-74012Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms <= 3.51.0 - Authenticated (Editor+) PHP Object Injection
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms
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Steve Burge
TaxoPress allows you to create and manage Tags, Categories, and all your WordPress taxonomy terms. TaxoPress can help with all your WordPress content, from adding Tags and Categories to Pages, to managing WooCommerce Product Categories and bbPress Topic Tags. TaxoPress has integrations with AI tools including OpenAI. You can use these AI services to find the best taxonomy terms for your content. With TaxoPress, you can organize, optimize, and showcase all your WordPress content: Organize: In TaxoPress, you can manage taxonomies, and also terms. There are tools for you to add, rename, remove, delete and even merge terms. You can add any term or taxonomy to any post type. Optimize: TaxoPress can improve your SEO with automatic term management. TaxoPress can automatically suggest relevant terms for your content and link those terms to the correct archive pages. Showcase: TaxoPress allows you to use your terms for advanced features such as Related Posts and Tag Clouds. TaxoPress Pro Upgrade to TaxoPress Pro This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of TaxoPress has extra features and expert support. Get the TaxoPress Pro plugin now! 10 Key Features in TaxoPress Manage Terms and Taxonomies: You can create new taxonomies and edit all the settings for each taxonomy. Terms Display: This feature allows you to create a customizable display of all the terms in one taxonomy. Terms for Current Post: This enables you to create a customizable display of all the terms assigned to the current post. Related Posts: Shows lists of posts with similar tags and categories. Auto Links: If you have a term called “WordPress”, the Auto Links feature will find any instances of “WordPress” in your content and add links to the archive page for that tag. Auto Terms: If you have a term called “WordPress”, Auto Terms can analyze your posts, and when it finds the word “WordPress”, it can add that term to your post. Add Terms with AI: The Pro version of TaxoPress has AI integrations with OpenAI, IBM Watson, and more. This makes it easier for you to find or create the best taxonomy terms for your content. Term Synonyms: This feature allows you to have multiple words associated with a single term. Linked Terms: You can connect terms. When the main term is added to a post, the linked terms will be added also. Manage Terms: Add, rename, merge, remove, delete and even delete unused terms. Feature 1. Create and Manage Taxonomies TaxoPress can manage all the taxonomies created by WordPress and your plugins and themes. You can change the settings for each taxonomy. For example, you can change the visual labels, and control whether the taxonomy is organized in parent-child relationships. You can also assign your taxonomies to different post types. For example, you can use TaxoPress to add Categories to Pages, or WooCommerce Tags to Posts. Click here to read about managing taxonomies. Feature 2. Terms Display The Terms Display feature in TaxoPress allows you to show a cloud or list of the terms used on your site. For example, you can create a “Tag Cloud” showing all your WooCommerce product categories, or you can create a list of all the tags on bbPress topics. TaxoPress makes it easy to customize the format of your terms, and add custom CSS styles. The terms can be shown in a shortcode, a widget, or TaxoPress can try and automatically add the terms into your content. Click here to read about Terms Display. Feature 3. Terms for Current Post The Terms for Current Post feature in TaxoPress allows you to customize the displays of terms for single posts. This display is separate from any default display of terms in your theme, so you can use this feature to easily show terms anywhere on your site. TaxoPress makes it easy to customize the format of your terms, and add custom CSS styles. The terms can be shown in a shortcode, a widget, or TaxoPress can try and automatically add the terms into your content. Click here to read about Terms for Current Post. Feature 4. Related Posts TaxoPress can display posts that are related to the current post. This feature works by checking for shared taxonomy terms. If your post has the terms “Vegetables” and “Food”, then this feature will likely display other posts that also have the terms “Vegetables” and “Food”. The more terms that are shared, the more likely a post is to show. The Related Posts can be shown in a shortcode, a widget, or TaxoPress can try and automatically add the related posts into your content. Click here to read about Related Posts. Feature 5. Auto Links The Auto Links feature in TaxoPress will automatically add links to your content. If you have a term called “WordPress”, the Auto Links feature will find any instances of “WordPress” in your content and add a link to the archive page for that tag. So any instances of “WordPress” will link to /tag/wordpress. Click here to read about Auto Links. Feature 6. Auto Terms This feature allows WordPress to examine your post content and title for specified terms and automatically add those terms as Tags. Here’s an example of how it works: You add “WordPress” to the keywords list in TaxoPress. If your post content or title contains the word “WordPress”, then TaxoPress will automatically add “WordPress” as a term for this post. Click here to read about automatically adding terms. Feature 7. Add Terms with AI (Pro version) This feature makes it easier for you to find or create the best taxonomy terms for your content. TaxoPress AI can show a metabox on your post editing screen with all these options:. Manage Post Terms: This feature allows you to manage all the terms that are currently attached to a post. Suggest Existing Terms: This feature uses a tool in the TaxoPress plugin that can scan your posts and suggest relevant terms that already exist on your site. Show All Existing Terms: This feature allows you to browse all the terms in a taxonomy. OpenAI: These integrations allow you to connect to external service. These services will scan your content and suggest relevant terms. They can suggest existing terms and also new terms. Click here to read about TaxoPress and AI. Feature 8. Term Synonyms Synonyms is a feature in TaxoPress Pro that allows you to have multiple words associated with a single term. If TaxoPress scans your content and finds a synonym, it will act as if it has found the main term. Synonyms will be available on each term screen. For example, if your term is “Apple”, you can create synonyms such as “Apples”, “Golden Delicious”, “Granny Smith”, “Pink Lady”, “Honeycrisp”, “Red Delicious”, “Braeburn” and “Gravenstein”. Click here to read about Term Synonyms. Feature 9. Linked Terms Linked Terms is a feature in TaxoPress Pro that allows you to connect terms. When the main term is added to a post, the linked terms will be added also. For sites with a lot of terms, this feature makes it easier and quicker for your users to add the correct terms. For example, if you add the term “WordPress” to your posts, TaxoPress can automatically add Linked Terms that include “CMS”, “website”, and “website design”. Click here to read about Linked Terms. Feature 10. Manage Terms The Manage Terms screen in TaxoPress provides you with several useful tools to manage the terms on your site. These tools can be used with any taxonomy. Here are some of the tools on the Manage Terms screen: Add terms: Quickly add terms to your content. Rename terms: Change the name of your terms in bulk. Merge terms: Combine existing terms together. This is very useful for fixing typos in your terms. Delete unused terms: Delete any terms that are rarely used. Click here to read about managing terms. TaxoPress Pro Upgrade to TaxoPress Pro This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of TaxoPress has extra features and expert support. Get the TaxoPress Pro plugin now! The TaxoPress and Tag Groups plugins TaxoPress is developed by the same team that support the popular Tag Groups plugin. Together Tag Groups and TaxoPress are an excellent solution for organizing and displaying your site’s content. TaxoPress Bug Reports Bug reports for TaxoPress are welcomed in our repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, but a place to report bugs in the plugn that can be replicated outside of a single site. Follow the TaxoPress team Follow TaxoPress on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. [3.53.0] – 01 September, 2026 Fixed: Mass Edit pagination is broken, #3014 Update: Enforce native taxonomy capabilities for term actions, #3013 Update: Bound Auto Terms existing-content processing, #3012 Update: Restrict administrative taxonomy term lookups, #3011 Update: Harden AI integrations and metabox mutations, #3010 Add a loco.xml file, #3009 [3.52.0] – 19 August, 2026 Update: Normalize Auto Terms specific-term values, #3001 Update: Add permission checks to Pro configuration copy actions, #3000 Update: Restrict synonym validation to TaxoPress managers, #2999 Add permission checks to term copy actions, #2998 Harden Linked Terms list and bulk actions, #2997 Strengthen Manage Terms request validation, #2995 Tighten access checks for term suggestion lookups, #2993 Add request validation to legacy tag creation, #2991 Harden TaxoPress AI term result rendering, #2989 [3.51.0] – 22 July, 2026 Fixed: Fatal memory exhaustion on Terms screen (st_terms) with hierarchical taxonomy — not related to term count, #2967 Fixed: Related Posts thumbnail image resolution setting is ignored, #2964 Fixed: Terms screen causes memory exhaustion on large sites, #2962 Fixed: Improve AI preview post validation, #2968. Thanks to Duy for the report Fixed: Terms screen can run out of memory on large sites, #2961 Update: Remove the lock icon in the Pro version, #2963 Update: Include changelog in readme.txt for plugin update dialog box, #2959 The full changelog can be found on GitHub.
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