# CVE-2020-35934: The Advanced Access Manager plugin before 6.6.2 for WordPress displays the unfiltered user object (including all metadata) upon login via th

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:L/I:N/PR:L/S:U/UI:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-01-01 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The Advanced Access Manager plugin before 6.6.2 for WordPress displays the unfiltered user object (including all metadata) upon login via the REST API (aam/v1/authenticate or aam/v2/authenticate). This is a security problem if this object stores information that the user is not supposed to have (e.g., custom metadata added by a different plugin).

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/08/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-advanced-access-manager/

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