Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Lazy Load & Load More <= 7.8.1 - Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Private/Draft Post Title and Excerpt Exposure

Incorrect Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE	CVE-2025-15525
CVSS	Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published	January 30, 2026
Last Updated	January 31, 2026
Researcher	shark3y

Description

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.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	ajax-load-more (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 7.8.1
Patched Version	7.8.2

This record contains material that is subject to copyright

Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc.
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. License Detail.