Tag Category and Taxonomy Manager Plugin up to 3.50.x on WordPress authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Tag Category and Taxonomy Manager Plugin up to 3.50.x. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-15231. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Tag Category and Taxonomy Manager Plugin up to 3.50.x. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager WordPress plugin before 3.51.0 does not verify that a user is authorized to access a referenced post before processing it and returning derived data, allowing users with contributor privileges to disclose data from private or draft posts they do not own.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-15231 since 07/09/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 3.51.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Tag Category and Taxonomy Manager Plugin

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29
• 3.30
• 3.31
• 3.32
• 3.33
• 3.34
• 3.35
• 3.36
• 3.37
• 3.38
• 3.39
• 3.40
• 3.41
• 3.42
• 3.43
• 3.44
• 3.45
• 3.46
• 3.47
• 3.48
• 3.49
• 3.50

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