CVE-2024-8505

medium

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca29158a-ca60-46c7-93a5-bcf76e7666e4?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-load-more/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3160896/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-load-more/trunk/core/classes/class-alm-shortcode.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-02

Updated: 2024-10-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00082