CVE-2025-15525 Missing authorization in Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load
Unauthenticated attackers can expose titles and excerpts of private, draft, and trashed posts due to incorrect authorization checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-15525?
CVE-2025-15525 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in dcooney Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load, published on 31 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15525?
How do I fix CVE-2025-15525?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-15525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-15525 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15525 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r5qp-5ph7-4xww.