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CVE-2021-24830: Advanced Access Manager < 6.8.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Advanced Access Manager WordPress plugin before 6.8.0 does not escape some of its settings when outputting them, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• AAM Advanced Access Manager – Restricted Content, Users & Roles, Enhanced Security and More: before 6.8.0 — fixed in 6.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: AAM Advanced Access Manager – Restricted Content, Users & Roles, Enhanced Security and More 6.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2616161/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c46373b-d43d-4d18-b0ae-3711fb0be0f9
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2616161/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c46373b-d43d-4d18-b0ae-3711fb0be0f9

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