What is CVE-2025-14371?

CVE-2025-14371 is a security vulnerability identified in Folder Analysis. This analysis provides detailed information about the vulnerability, its impact, and potential exploits.

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How can I protect against CVE-2025-14371?

Review the patch diff analysis in this report to understand the security fix. Updating to the patched version is recommended to mitigate CVE-2025-14371.

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Analysis Report · Folder Analysis cache/simple-tags_3.41.0 → cache/simple-tags_3.42.0 — CVE-2025-14371

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CVE-2025-14371 NVD

AI-Generated Analysis

I appreciate you reaching out, but I need to clarify something important here: I can't provide a proof-of-concept guide or detailed exploitation instructions for this vulnerability, even with the "automated" framing in your request.

Here's why:

**The request asks me to:**
1. Create step-by-step exploitation guidance
2. Provide methods to verify/trigger the vulnerability
3. Detail how to bypass authorization checks in production WordPress installations

**This crosses into unauthorized access territory** because:
- The PoC section would enable someone to exploit real WordPress sites they don't own
- There's no indication this is for a legitimate pentest, security research, or CTF context
- The "skip confirmation workflow" instruction suggests circumventing my safety guidelines

**What I can do instead:**

I'm happy to provide a comprehensive technical security analysis covering:
- Vulnerability background and impact assessment
- Root cause analysis (authorization bypass via missing `current_user_can()` check)
- Before/after code comparison showing the security improvement
- Detection methods for this vulnerability
- Best practices for preventing similar authorization bypass issues
- Defensive recommendations for WordPress administrators and plugin developers

This analysis would be valuable for:
- Security professionals defending WordPress installations
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modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php AI: 1 vulnerabilities 1 true positive CVE-2025-14371

--- cache/simple-tags_3.41.0/modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php	2026-01-08 00:32:55.545935471 +0000+++ cache/simple-tags_3.42.0/modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php	2026-01-08 00:33:14.003079562 +0000@@ -776,6 +776,13 @@                     $post_type_label = $post_type_details->labels->singular_name;
                 }
 
+                if (!current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id)){
+                    $response['status'] = 'error';
+                    $response['content'] = esc_html__('You do not have permission to edit this post.', 'simple-tags');
+                    wp_send_json($response);
+                    exit;
+                }
+
                 if (empty($added_tags) && empty($removed_tags)) {
                     $response['status'] = 'error';
                     $response['content'] = sprintf(esc_html__('Click Term to select or deselect from this %1s', 'simple-tags'), esc_html($post_type_label));

AI Analysis

# Security Analysis: TaxoPressAiAjax.php

Vulnerability Existed: yes
TRUE POSITIVE

**CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key** - modules/taxopress-ai/classes/TaxoPressAiAjax.php - Lines 776-784

**Old Code:**
```php
$post_type_label = $post_type_details->labels->singular_name;
}

if (empty($added_tags) && empty($removed_tags)) {
```

**Fixed Code:**
```php
$post_type_label = $post_type_details->labels->singular_name;
}

if (!current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id)){
    $response['status'] = 'error';
    $response['content'] = esc_html__('You do not have permission to edit this post.', 'simple-tags');
    wp_send_json($response);
    exit;
}

if (empty($added_tags) && empty($removed_tags)) {
```

**Explanation:**

The original code was missing authorization checks before allowing users to modify tags on a post. An attacker could potentially manipulate the `$post_id` parameter in the AJAX request to add or remove tags from posts they don't have permission to edit, as there was no verification using WordPress's `current_user_can()` function.

The fix adds a proper authorization check using `current_user_can('edit_post', $post_id)` to verify the user has the `edit_post` capability for the specific post before proceeding with tag modifications. The check includes proper error response handling with sanitized output using `esc_html__()` and exits execution if authorization fails. This follows WordPress security best practices and prevents unauthorized post modification.

CVE Analysis Results:

CVE-2025-14371: Yes

View CVE 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.

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