CVE-2026-14262

Description

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.

References

Reference URLs as listed by NVD, grouped by a mechanical match on the link's host/pattern. Labels describe the link type only.

• Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-jwt-login/tags/3.6.6/src/Services/Authen…
• Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-jwt-login/tags/3.6.6/src/Services/Authen…
• Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-jwt-login/tags/3.6.6/src/Services/BaseSe…
• Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-jwt-login/tags/3.6.6/src/Services/LoginS…
• Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3597277%40simple-jwt-login&new=…
• Vendor advisory https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cd97a7a4-9f57-4882-9e3e-0e985341…