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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2026-1728

Privilege Escalation via System REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Permits Admin Account Takeover

Description

Tokens issued to a low-privileged user are not sufficiently restricted, allowing them to be used to access product-level Admin REST APIs. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows a low-privileged user to invoke the Admin REST APIs of WSO2 products, potentially leading to full administrative account takeover. This requires the attacker to already possess a low-privileged user account and be able to obtain a valid token for it.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

WSO2 WSO2 API Manager

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 4.0.0unknown
  • 4.0.0 to < 4.0.0.384affected
  • 4.1.0 to < 4.1.0.248affected
  • 4.2.0 to < 4.2.0.188affected
  • 4.3.0 to < 4.3.0.99affected
  • 4.4.0 to < 4.4.0.63affected
  • 4.5.0 to < 4.5.0.48affected
  • 4.6.0 to < 4.6.0.12affected

WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.5.0 to < 4.5.0.49affected
  • 4.6.0 to < 4.6.0.13affected

WSO2 WSO2 Universal Gateway

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.5.0 to < 4.5.0.48affected
  • 4.6.0 to < 4.6.0.12affected

WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.5.0 to < 4.5.0.47affected
  • 4.6.0 to < 4.6.0.12affected

WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Common Functions

Default version status: unknown

  • 9.0.174 to < 9.0.174.550affected
  • 9.28.116 to < 9.28.116.404affected
  • 9.29.120 to < 9.29.120.221affected
  • 9.30.67 to < 9.30.67.146affected
  • 9.31.86 to < 9.31.86.130affected
  • 9.32.147 to < 9.32.147.26affected
  • 9.33.27 to ≤ *unaffected

WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility

Default version status: unknown

  • 9.20.74 to < 9.20.74.392affected
  • 9.33.27 to ≤ *unaffected

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