CVE-2022-2945 Information

Description

The WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to and including 5.5.3 via the ’type’ parameter found in the alm_get_layout() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative permissions to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server which can contain sensitive information.

Reference

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ajax-load-more/tags/5.5.4/README.txt https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2945 https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/f9a4b4838154854ec6cde7d5deb76bf9