WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Simple JWT Login < 3.6.8 - Unauthenticated Account Takeover via Missing Google id_token Audience Validation

Description

The plugin does not validate the audience of the Google identity tokens it accepts, allowing unauthenticated users to authenticate as any user whose email address such a token carries, up to and including an administrator. Every site with the plugin's Google sign-in enabled is affected.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.6.8

References

Classification

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Original Researcher
Farid Narimanov
Submitter
Farid Narimanov
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Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-14 (about 3 days ago)
Added
2026-08-14 (about 2 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-15 (about 1 day ago)

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