CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89027

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can bypass authentication mechanisms, enumerate user accounts, and conduct credential guessing attacks, potentially leading to administrative account takeover.

Recommendation

Update the miniOrange JWT Authentication for WP REST APIs plugin to version 4.8.0 or later.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS