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

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
CVE CVE-2020-35935
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published August 14, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
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.)

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-access-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.6.1
Patched Version
  • 6.6.2
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