CVE-2025-15525 (GCVE-0-2025-15525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-31 04:35 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:24
VLAI
Title
Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Lazy Load & Load More <= 7.8.1 - Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Private/Draft Post Title and Excerpt Exposure
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-02 17:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2299 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
dcooney Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.8.1 (semver)
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Credits
Angus Girvan
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