Well, after a bit of testing it seems you are correct, I must have changed the order of files. But I managed to recreate one test case where it doesn't work. Please try to download this file
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with autoextract enabled. This archive doesn't have any password but archives that are in it have password. Password is
See that Jdownloader tries to "crack" password for second archive again instead of reusing one that worked.