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CVE-2022-2433

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2433 is a high-severity deserialization vulnerability affecting the WordPress Infinite Scroll – Ajax Load More plugin versions up to and including 5.5.3. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by tricking an administrator into triggering a PHAR wrapper call, leading to arbitrary PHP object deserialization. This allows for various malicious actions, including remote code execution, given a suitable POP chain and successful file upload. While the CVSS score is 8.8, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:connekthq:ajax_load_more:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / dcooney/ajax-load-more/commit/b577b3257544bc74a5d2ad14f0a0f7df3eb843de
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2772627/ajax-load-more/trunk/admin/admin.php
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/040ae20d-93e3-4c65-ba74-4ff0b5c1afc7
Third Party Advisory
wordfence.com / vulnerability-advisories
Third Party Advisory