CVE-2026-14262 PUBLISHED

Simple JWT Login <= 3.6.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authentication Bypass to Privilege Escalation via 'payload' Parameter

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 30.06.2026 Published: 11.07.2026 Updated: 11.07.2026

The Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on REST endpoints. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.6 via the payload parameter. The vulnerability exists because AuthenticateService::generatePayload() only overwrites JWT payload keys whose names appear in the admin-configured jwt_payload list — leaving any attacker-supplied identity claims such as email, id, or username intact and signed into the JWT with the site's HS256 secret. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an Administrator by injecting a target administrator's email address into the payload parameter at the /wp-json/simple-jwt-login/v1/auth endpoint, then redeeming the resulting JWT at the /autologin endpoint to obtain a fully authenticated session as that administrator.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor nicu_m
Product Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on REST endpoints.
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.6.6 (incl.)

Credits

  • Navapon Premkasem (71C4) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE