CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-8505
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-10-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79, CWE-87
Description
The WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘button_label’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected configurations
• connekthq ajax load more (< 7.1.3)
Related
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-load-more/trunk/core/classes/class-alm-shortcode.php Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3160896/ Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-load-more/#developers Product, Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca29158a-ca60-46c7-93a5-bcf76e7666e4?source=cve Third Party Advisory