CVE-2024-10040: Infinite-Scroll <= 2.6.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Infinite-Scroll plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the process_ajax_edit and process_ajax_delete function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make changes to plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

paulirish-1 Infinite-Scroll: through 2.6.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infinite-scroll/trunk/includes/presets.php#L252
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/infinite-scroll/trunk/includes/presets.php#L275
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4045575a-35f0-46e5-afb7-93eee9be3a97?source=cve

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