Faust.js is a headless WordPress toolkit. Prior to 1.8.11, the FaustWP WordPress plugin authenticates only the ciphertext in its token envelope and excludes the 16-byte initialization vector from the HMAC in WPE\FaustWP\Auth\encrypt() and WPE\FaustWP\Auth\decrypt() in plugins/faustwp/includes/auth/functions.php. A logged-in non-administrator who obtains an authorization code from GET /generate can modify the unauthenticated initialization vector so that CBC decryption changes the token type and user identifier while the HMAC remains valid. This can produce an access token for an Administrator and permit full WordPress REST API access, administrator-account creation, plugin installation, and arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in repository version 1.8.11.
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| Description | Faust.js is a headless WordPress toolkit. Prior to 1.8.11, the FaustWP WordPress plugin authenticates only the ciphertext in its token envelope and excludes the 16-byte initialization vector from the HMAC in WPE\FaustWP\Auth\encrypt() and WPE\FaustWP\Auth\decrypt() in plugins/faustwp/includes/auth/functions.php. A logged-in non-administrator who obtains an authorization code from GET /generate can modify the unauthenticated initialization vector so that CBC decryption changes the token type and user identifier while the HMAC remains valid. This can produce an access token for an Administrator and permit full WordPress REST API access, administrator-account creation, plugin installation, and arbitrary code execution. This issue is fixed in repository version 1.8.11. | |
| Title | FaustWP — Authentication Bypass via Initialization Vector Modification in Token Envelope | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-345 CWE-639 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-09-17T18:25:36.503Z
Updated: 2026-09-18T18:33:34.727Z
Reserved: 2026-06-12T16:25:43.084Z
Link: CVE-2026-54239
Updated: 2026-09-18T17:24:08.989Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-17T19:16:50.047
Modified: 2026-09-24T21:23:54.397
Link: CVE-2026-54239
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