Advanced Access Manager <= 6.6.1 - Authenticated Information Disclosure

4.3
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2020-35934
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 20, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram - Wordfence

Description

The Advanced Access Manager plugin before 6.6.2 for WordPress displays the unfiltered user object (including all metadata) upon login via the REST API (aam/v1/authenticate or aam/v2/authenticate). This is a security problem if this object stores information that the user is not supposed to have (e.g., custom metadata added by a different plugin).

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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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