CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-35935
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.)
Affected configurations
• vasyltech advanced access manager (< 6.6.2)
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/08/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-advanced-access-manager/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/08/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-advanced-access-manager/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory