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WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More, CVE-2022-2433

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2022-2433

Published on
Sep 06, 2022
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 5.5.4.
Status
vulnerable