by michielve 5 (6 reviews)

API Bearer Auth

Name: API Bearer Auth
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)
Author: michielve

Access and refresh tokens based authentication plugin for the REST API.

API Bearer Auth ranks #11,063 among WordPress.org plugins with 300+ active installations, is #276 of 1,580 in the Authentication category, a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Dec 8, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 9 months ago Last Update on 08 Dec, 2025

Refreshed 7 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#276 of 1,580 in Authentication Top 25% by installs

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#11,063

+29 this week

Active Installs

300+

-7.7%

KW Avg Position

48.6

0.8 worse

Downloads

23.6K

+7 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

100%

Review 5 out of 5

5 (6 reviews)

Next Milestone 400

Total Progress 16%

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Reviews & Ratings

5.0

6 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Sep 6, 2019

API Bearer Auth [api-bearer-auth] < 20181230

Fixed in v20181230
Sep 5, 2019

API Bearer Auth [api-bearer-auth] < 20190908

CVE-2019-16332 · Fixed in v20190908

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Dec 08, 2025
Requires WP: 4.6+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 5.4.0 or higher
Author: michielve

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 6
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

api authentication jwt jwt-tokens rest-api

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who need to secure their REST API with token-based authentication. It solves the problem of unauthenticated REST API access by requiring JWT-based access and refresh tokens for requests, with the ability to revoke issued tokens.