Cannot authenticate protected APIs with JWT

[giricgoyal]

Bug Description

Not able to authenticate protected apis with jwt token. Receiving invald_username error. Using postman to create and test the workflow.

Configuration: General:

Login:

Authentication:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Hit the Authentication api with paramters:

{
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "password",
    "AUTH_KEY": "{{PASSPORT_API_KEY}}"
}

2. Hit the posts api /wp-json/wp/v2/posts with Authorization Header and JWT token received from step 1

Authorization: "Bearer <JWT TOKEN>"

Received the error:

{
    "code": "invalid_username",
    "message": "<strong>Error</strong>: Unknown username. Check again or try your email address.",
    "data": null
}

Environment

Question	Answer
WordPress version	6.0.1
Simple-JWT-Login plugin version	3.4.6

[maxmadknight]

Same here It seems like the JWT auth is triggering the "Default authentication filters" The file wp-includes/user.php function "wp_authenticate_username_password" which throws this error