CVE-2024-8505: Connekthq AJAX Load More

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘button_label’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Connekthq AJAX Load More: before 7.1.3 (fixed in 7.1.3)

Published 2024-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.