Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress <= 8.0.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Authorization Bypass to Privilege Escalation via JWT REST Endpoints
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1252
- Plugin
- Access Governance for WordPress (aka AAM) (advanced-access-manager)
- Affected
- all versions before 8.0.2
- Remediation
- Update to 8.0.2 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-20
- Attack surface
- Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Access Governance for WordPress (aka AAM) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via the aam/v2/jwts and aam/v2/jwt/{id} REST endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 8.0.1, due to the 'access_level' parameter being optional, which skips the checks that the caller may manage users and may edit the user given in 'user_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with AAM JWT management access, such as site administrators on a multisite network or delegated AAM managers, to issue, read, refresh or revoke JSON Web Tokens for any user, including network super administrators, and then log in as that user.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1252/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/advanced-access-manager/tags/8.0.2/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/
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