CVE-2026-89027

miniOrange JWT Authentication for WP REST APIs < 4.8.0 Authentication Downgrade

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Sep 15, 2026
Updated
Sep 17, 2026
Reserved
Sep 10, 2026

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Description

miniOrange JWT Authentication for WP REST APIs plugin for WordPress before 4.8.0 contains an authentication method downgrade vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass administrator-configured authentication by supplying a specific GET parameter without any capability check or nonce verification. Attackers can force the plugin to use Basic HTTP authentication regardless of configured JWT or API token settings, then exploit distinguishable error codes and the absence of rate limiting to perform unthrottled username enumeration and credential guessing attacks.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

ProductVersions
JWT Authentication for WP REST APIsminiOrange
  • before 4.8.0Affected

References

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