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 enabled. (The mechanism f

high Affects advanced-access-manager (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

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 f

Package
advanced-access-manager (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<6.6.2
Fixed in
6.6.2
Severity
high  CVSS 7.5
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (73.9th percentile)
Published
2021-01-01
Source
nvd

References

NVD recordadvanced-access-manager (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# PHP projects (recommended)
composer require --dev phpwarden/phpwarden
# then
vendor/bin/phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

# or, without Composer
pipx install phpwarden   &&   phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs   How findings are ranked

Related advisories