CVE-2026-1728Privilege Escalation via System REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Permits Admin Account Takeover
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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.
- CVSS
- 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-269
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WSO2
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Aug 6, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
WSO2 WSO2 API Manager wso2:api_manager (from the name) | before 4.0.0 status unknown; from 4.0.0 before 4.0.0.384; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.0.248; from 4.2.0 before 4.2.0.188; from 4.3.0 before 4.3.0.99; from 4.4.0 before 4.4.0.63; from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.48; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | CNA record |
WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane wso2:api_control_plane (from the name) | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.49; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.13 | CNA record |
WSO2 WSO2 Universal Gateway wso2:universal_gateway (from the name) | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.48; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | CNA record |
WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager wso2:traffic_manager (from the name) | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.47; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | CNA record |
WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Common Functions wso2:carbon_api_manager_rest_api_common_functions (from the name) | from 9.0.174 before 9.0.174.550; from 9.28.116 before 9.28.116.404; from 9.29.120 before 9.29.120.221; from 9.30.67 before 9.30.67.146; from 9.31.86 before 9.31.86.130; from 9.32.147 before 9.32.147.26; from 9.33.27 not affected | CNA record |
WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility wso2:carbon_api_manager_rest_api_utility (from the name) | from 9.20.74 before 9.20.74.392; from 9.33.27 not affected | CNA record |
wso2 api_control_plane wso2:api_control_plane | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.49; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.13 | NVD |
wso2 api_manager wso2:api_manager | from 4.0.0 before 4.0.0.384; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.0.248; from 4.2.0 before 4.2.0.188; from 4.3.0 before 4.3.0.99; from 4.4.0 before 4.4.0.63; from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.48; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | NVD |
wso2 traffic_manager wso2:traffic_manager | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.47; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | NVD |
wso2 universal_gateway wso2:universal_gateway | from 4.5.0 before 4.5.0.48; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.0.12 | NVD |
References
- https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2026-5077/vendor-advisory
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