CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24998

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-12-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-330

Description

The Simple JWT Login WordPress plugin before 3.3.0 can be used to create new WordPress user accounts with a randomly generated password. The password is generated using the str_shuffle PHP function that "does not generate cryptographically secure values, and should not be used for cryptographic purposes" according to PHP's documentation.

Affected configurations

• simple jwt login project simple jwt login (< 3.3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness

References