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:HAttack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Technical Details
Affected versions
<=6.6.1PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginadvanced-access-manager
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