Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Lazy Load & Load More <= 7.8.1 — Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Private/Draft Post Title and Excerpt Exposure
CVE-2025-15525Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.8.1Update to 7.8.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load ajax-load-more
- Affected≤ 7.8.1
- Patched in7.8.2
Update to 7.8.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 7.8.1. Version 7.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 7.8.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to shark3y.
The Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to incorrect authorization on the parse_custom_args() function in all versions up to, and including, 7.8.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to expose the titles and excerpts of private, draft, pending, scheduled, and trashed posts.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load
All 19| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection ≤8.0.0Update to 8.0.1 | CVE-2026-15360 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting <7.8.4Update to 7.8.4 | CVE-2026-6495 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure ≤7.6.0.2Update to 7.6.1 | CVE-2025-59582 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤7.4.0.1Update to 7.4.1 | CVE-2025-4775 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤7.3.1.2Update to 7.3.1.3 | CVE-2025-47630 |
- High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤8.0.0Update to 8.0.1
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<7.8.4Update to 7.8.4
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤7.6.0.2Update to 7.6.1
- Medium6.4Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.4.0.1Update to 7.4.1
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.3.1.2Update to 7.3.1.3
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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