CVE-2020-35935

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

highAuthentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
7.5
CVSS Score
7.5
CVSS Score
high
Severity
6.6.2
Patched in
1257d
Time to patch

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.)

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=6.6.1
PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

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