CVE-2024-8505

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security@wordfence.com

Published

2024-10-02

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79, CWE-87

Affected products

• Ajax Load More (Connekthq)
• Lazy Load (Dcooney)
• Ajax Load More Infinite Scroll (Dcooney)
• Load More (Dcooney)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-load-more/trunk/core/classes/class-alm-shortcode.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3160896/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-load-more/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca29158a-ca60-46c7-93a5-bcf76e7666e4?source=cve