Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2024-8505

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Connekthq
Status: WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More
Vendor: CVE Published:; 2 October 2024

Summary

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 Version(s)

WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More <= 7.1.2

CVSS V3.1

Score:

6.4

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

Low

Integrity:

Low

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

None

Scope:

Changed

Timeline

Vulnerability published.
Oct 2, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved.
Sep 5, 2024

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Robert DeVore