CryptoJS encryption decryption in Vue, PHP, and Dart based on this solution (https://stackoverflow.com/a/64330804/10308290)

aes.dart

import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:math';
import 'dart:typed_data';
import 'package:crypto/crypto.dart';
import 'package:tuple/tuple.dart';
import 'package:encrypt/encrypt.dart' as encrypt;

// Thanks to https://medium.com/@chingsuehok/cryptojs-aes-encryption-decryption-for-flutter-dart-7ca123bd7464

class AES {
  String encryptAESCryptoJS(String plainText, String passphrase) {
    try {
      final salt = genRandomWithNonZero(8);
      var keyndIV = deriveKeyAndIV(passphrase, salt);
      final key = encrypt.Key(keyndIV.item1);
      final iv = encrypt.IV(keyndIV.item2);

      final encrypter = encrypt.Encrypter(encrypt.AES(key, mode: encrypt.AESMode.cbc, padding: "PKCS7"));
      final encrypted = encrypter.encrypt(json.encode(plainText), iv: iv);
      return '{"ct":"${encrypted.base64}","iv":"${iv.base16}","s":"${bin2hex(salt)}"}';
    } catch (error) {
      throw error;
    }
  }

  String decryptAESCryptoJS(String jsonEncrypted, String passphrase) {
    try {
    final jsonData = json.decode(jsonEncrypted) as Map<String, dynamic>;
    final salt = hex2bin(jsonData['s']);
    final ct = base64.decode(jsonData['ct']);
    final ivHex = hex2bin(jsonData['iv']);
    final keyndIV = deriveKeyAndIV(passphrase, salt);
    final key = encrypt.Key(keyndIV.item1);
    final iv = encrypt.IV(ivHex);
    final encrypter = encrypt.Encrypter(encrypt.AES(key, mode: encrypt.AESMode.cbc, padding: "PKCS7"));
    final decrypted = encrypter.decrypt64(base64.encode(ct), iv: iv);
    return json.decode(decrypted);
    } catch (error) {
      throw error;
    }
  }

  Tuple2<Uint8List, Uint8List> deriveKeyAndIV(String passphrase, Uint8List salt) {
    var password = createUint8ListFromString(passphrase);
    Uint8List concatenatedHashes = Uint8List(0);
    Uint8List currentHash = Uint8List(0);
    bool enoughBytesForKey = false;
    Uint8List preHash = Uint8List(0);

    while (!enoughBytesForKey) {
      int preHashLength = currentHash.length + password.length + salt.length;
      if (currentHash.length > 0)
        preHash = Uint8List.fromList(currentHash + password + salt);
      else
        preHash = Uint8List.fromList(password + salt);

      currentHash = Uint8List.fromList(md5.convert(preHash).bytes);
      concatenatedHashes = Uint8List.fromList(concatenatedHashes + currentHash);
      if (concatenatedHashes.length >= 48) enoughBytesForKey = true;
    }

    var keyBtyes = concatenatedHashes.sublist(0, 32);
    var ivBtyes = concatenatedHashes.sublist(32, 48);
    return new Tuple2(keyBtyes, ivBtyes);
  }

  Uint8List createUint8ListFromString(String s) {
    var ret = new Uint8List(s.length);
    for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
      ret[i] = s.codeUnitAt(i);
    }
    return ret;
  }

  Uint8List genRandomWithNonZero(int seedLength) {
    final random = Random.secure();
    const int randomMax = 245;
    final Uint8List uint8list = Uint8List(seedLength);
    for (int i = 0; i < seedLength; i++) {
      uint8list[i] = random.nextInt(randomMax) + 1;
    }
    return uint8list;
  }

  String bin2hex(Uint8List bytes, {String? separator, int? wrap}) {
    var len = 0;
    final buf = StringBuffer();
    for (final b in bytes) {
      final s = b.toRadixString(16);
      if (buf.isNotEmpty && separator != null) {
        buf.write(separator);
        len += separator.length;
      }

      if (wrap != null && wrap < len + 2) {
        buf.write('\n');
        len = 0;
      }

      buf.write('${(s.length == 1) ? '0' : ''}$s');
      len += 2;
    }
    return buf.toString();
  }

  Uint8List hex2bin(String hexStr) {
    if (hexStr.length % 2 != 0) {
      throw const FormatException('not an even number of hexadecimal characters');
    }
    final result = Uint8List(hexStr.length ~/ 2);
    for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
      result[i] = int.parse(hexStr.substring(2 * i, 2 * (i + 1)), radix: 16);
    }
    return result;
  }
}

aes.js

var CryptoJSAesJson = {
    stringify: function (cipherParams) {
        var j = {ct: cipherParams.ciphertext.toString(CryptoJS.enc.Base64)};
        if (cipherParams.iv) j.iv = cipherParams.iv.toString();
        if (cipherParams.salt) j.s = cipherParams.salt.toString();
        return JSON.stringify(j);
    },
    parse: function (jsonStr) {
        var j = JSON.parse(jsonStr);
        var cipherParams = CryptoJS.lib.CipherParams.create({ciphertext: CryptoJS.enc.Base64.parse(j.ct)});
        if (j.iv) cipherParams.iv = CryptoJS.enc.Hex.parse(j.iv)
        if (j.s) cipherParams.salt = CryptoJS.enc.Hex.parse(j.s)
        return cipherParams;
    }
}
// <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.0.0/crypto-js.min.js"></script>

var key = "key123456";
var encrypted = CryptoJS.AES.encrypt(JSON.stringify("plaintext"), key, {format: CryptoJSAesJson}).toString();
console.log(encrypted);
var decrypted = JSON.parse(CryptoJS.AES.decrypt(encrypted, key, {format: CryptoJSAesJson}).toString(CryptoJS.enc.Utf8));
console.log("decryyepted: "+decrypted);

aes.php

<?php
/**
 *-------------PHP code example-----------------
 */
/**
 * Decrypt data from a CryptoJS json encoding string
 *
 * @param mixed $passphrase
 * @param mixed $jsonString
 * @return mixed
 */
function cryptoJsAesDecrypt($passphrase, $jsonString){
    $jsondata = json_decode($jsonString, true);
    $salt = hex2bin($jsondata["s"]);
    $ct = base64_decode($jsondata["ct"]);
    $iv  = hex2bin($jsondata["iv"]);
    $concatedPassphrase = $passphrase.$salt;
    $md5 = array();
    $md5[0] = md5($concatedPassphrase, true);
    $result = $md5[0];
    for ($i = 1; $i < 3; $i++) {
        $md5[$i] = md5($md5[$i - 1].$concatedPassphrase, true);
        $result .= $md5[$i];
    }
    $key = substr($result, 0, 32);
    $data = openssl_decrypt($ct, 'aes-256-cbc', $key, true, $iv);
    return json_decode($data, true);
}

/**
 * Encrypt value to a cryptojs compatiable json encoding string
 *
 * @param mixed $passphrase
 * @param mixed $value
 * @return string
 */
function cryptoJsAesEncrypt($passphrase, $value){
    $salt = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(8);
    $salted = '';
    $dx = '';
    while (strlen($salted) < 48) {
        $dx = md5($dx.$passphrase.$salt, true);
        $salted .= $dx;
    }
    $key = substr($salted, 0, 32);
    $iv  = substr($salted, 32,16);
    $encrypted_data = openssl_encrypt(json_encode($value), 'aes-256-cbc', $key, true, $iv);
    $data = array("ct" => base64_encode($encrypted_data), "iv" => bin2hex($iv), "s" => bin2hex($salt));
    return json_encode($data);
}

// Example
$key = "key123456";
$encrypted = '{"ct":"XMW1sLzwrSv3b+aGyaT0UQ==","iv":"e4871f22e7fd444a01b624f8d27c0381","s":"aace984f071407b1"}';
$decrypted = cryptoJsAesDecrypt($key, $encrypted);
echo "decrypted: $decrypted";

?>

main.dart

import 'aes.dart';

void main(List<String> args) {
  String ct = AES().encryptAESCryptoJS(
    'plaintext',
    'key123456',
  );
  print('ct: $ct');
  String pt = AES().decryptAESCryptoJS(
    ct,
    'key123456',
  );
  print('pt: $pt');
}

pubspec.yaml

name: belajar_aes
description: A simple command-line application.
version: 1.0.0
# homepage: https://www.example.com

environment:
  sdk: '>=2.14.2 <3.0.0'

dependencies:
  encrypt: ^5.0.1
  tuple: ^2.0.0

dev_dependencies:
  lints: ^1.0.0

Here is the output

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Thanks its very much helpfule to understand, it's very confusing to undestand Crypto js directly. I am trying to recreate in python but not able to get any luck.