# 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`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-access-manager/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 8.0.2
- **Fixed in:** 8.0.2 (Update to 8.0.2 or later.)
- **Severity:** High 7.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **Weakness:** CWE-863
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-20)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/advanced-access-manager
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-19
- **Published:** 2026-10-20
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1252/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1252/

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