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

2020-08-14 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 6.6.2

Affected PluginAdvanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress

Affected Version<= 6.6.1

CVSS7.5High

CVECVE-2020-35935

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Vulnerability Overview

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.)

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 6.6.2, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-305 (Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness) The authentication algorithm is sound, but the implemented mechanism can be bypassed as the result of a separate weakness that is primary to the authentication error.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35935 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e6de586-5621-4eb2-8150-cb42562d289f

CVSS Vector

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityHigh
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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