diff --git a/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCover.php b/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCover.php
index 9d4d3814d14db5977d485714ca1ae5be065f5032..64def480bc9d3881d5647edae44d503d3ebb488e 100644
--- a/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCover.php
+++ b/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCover.php
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use VuFind\Cover\Router as CoverRouter;
 use VuFind\Exception\RecordMissing as RecordMissingException;
 use VuFind\ILS\Driver\CacheTrait;
 use VuFind\Record\Loader as RecordLoader;
+use VuFind\Session\Settings as SessionSettings;
 
 /**
  * GetRecordCover AJAX handler.
@@ -79,18 +80,20 @@ class GetRecordCover extends AbstractBase implements AjaxHandlerInterface
     /**
      * GetRecordCover constructor.
      *
-     * @param RecordLoader $recordLoader            Record loader
-     * @param CoverRouter  $coverRouter             Cover router
-     * @param PhpRenderer  $renderer                PHP renderer (only required if
-     * $userCoverFallbacksOnFail is set to true)
-     * @param bool         $useCoverFallbacksOnFail If true we will render a
+     * @param SessionSettings $ss                      Session settings
+     * @param RecordLoader    $recordLoader            Record loader
+     * @param CoverRouter     $coverRouter             Cover router
+     * @param PhpRenderer     $renderer                PHP renderer (only
+     * required if $userCoverFallbacksOnFail is set to true)
+     * @param bool            $useCoverFallbacksOnFail If true we will render a
      * fallback html template in case no image could be loaded
      */
-    public function __construct(RecordLoader $recordLoader,
+    public function __construct(SessionSettings $ss, RecordLoader $recordLoader,
         CoverRouter $coverRouter,
         ?PhpRenderer $renderer = null,
         $useCoverFallbacksOnFail = false
     ) {
+        $this->sessionSettings = $ss;
         $this->recordLoader = $recordLoader;
         $this->coverRouter = $coverRouter;
         $this->renderer = $renderer;
@@ -107,6 +110,8 @@ class GetRecordCover extends AbstractBase implements AjaxHandlerInterface
      */
     public function handleRequest(Params $params)
     {
+        $this->disableSessionWrites();
+
         $recordId = $params->fromQuery('recordId');
         $recordSource = $params->fromQuery('source', DEFAULT_SEARCH_BACKEND);
         $size = $params->fromQuery('size', 'small');
diff --git a/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCoverFactory.php b/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCoverFactory.php
index b66289308b0fb29a75c1dbca1692bfbe69c22f1b..ad8c087289dbc5fa878779b9f340075a795bdd93 100644
--- a/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCoverFactory.php
+++ b/module/VuFind/src/VuFind/AjaxHandler/GetRecordCoverFactory.php
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class GetRecordCoverFactory implements FactoryInterface
             = $container->get(\VuFind\Config\PluginManager::class)->get('config');
         $useFallbacks = $config->Content->useCoverFallbacksOnFail ?? false;
         return new $requestedName(
+            $container->get(\VuFind\Session\Settings::class),
             $container->get(\VuFind\Record\Loader::class),
             $container->get(\VuFind\Cover\Router::class),
             // We only need the view renderer if we're going to use fallbacks: