Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense: A security weakness
Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense
- Plugin slug
advanced-ads- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 19, 2026
This CVE was published Feb 19, 2026 and is one of 8 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.0.14. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the `placement_update_item()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update ad placements, allowing them to change which ad or ad group a placement serves.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N