## Version 9/6/2025 - API Security & Access Control

## 🔒 Security Updates

- **Role-Based Access Control**: Added role validation middleware to delete-announcement and delete-promocode API endpoints to restrict access to owners and managers only
- **Enhanced Authorization**: Implemented stricter permission checks preventing unauthorized users from deleting critical content

## 🔧 Improvements

- **API Security**: Strengthened endpoint protection with proper role verification before processing deletion requests
- **Access Management**: Improved admin-level operations security by enforcing appropriate user privilege requirements

## 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **Unauthorized Access**: Resolved potential security vulnerability where non-privileged users could potentially access deletion endpoints
- **Permission Validation**: Fixed missing authorization checks in announcement and promo code management workflows

_Questions about these updates? Contact our support team at support@pophopmail.us_