Advanced Access Manager <= 6.6.1 - Authenticated Authorization Bypass and Privilege Escalation

7.5
Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
CVE CVE-2020-35935
CVSS 7.5 (High)
Publicly Published August 14, 2020
Last Updated January 16, 2023
Researcher Ram - Wordfence

Description

The Advanced Access Manager plugin before 6.6.2 for WordPress allows privilege escalation on profile updates via the aam_user_roles POST parameter if Multiple Role support is enabled. (The mechanism for deciding whether a user was entitled to add a role did not work in various custom-role scenarios.)

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Access Manager – Restricted Content, Users & Roles, Enhanced Security and More

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-access-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.6.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 6.6.1
Patched Version
  • 6.6.2

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