CVE-2022-2433
WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More <= 5.5.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to PHAR Deserialization
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 6, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Jul 15, 2022
Description
The WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'alm_repeaters_export' parameter in versions up to, and including 5.5.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated users to call files using a PHAR wrapper, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link, that will deserialize and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Loaddcooney |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/040ae20d-93e3-4c65-ba74-4ff0b5c1afc7?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2772627/ajax-load-more/trunk/admin/admin.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2433
- https://github.com/dcooney/ajax-load-more/commit/b577b3257544bc74a5d2ad14f0a0f7df3eb843de
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