# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r5qp-5ph7-4xww

## 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 (Incorrect Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-15525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-15525 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: dcooney Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15525/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15525/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15525
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15525
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-15525

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15525/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.