High severity · published Jan 1, 2021
CVE-2020-35935
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…
8.8
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Advanced Access Manager · Vasyltech
before 6.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35935
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35935
Exploit
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/08/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-advanced-access-manager/
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