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🛡️ CVE-2026-1728 — api-control-plane

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-1728 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2026-1728 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • api-control-plane (from 4.6.0 up to 4.6.0.13)
  • api-manager (from 4.6.0 up to 4.6.0.12)
  • traffic-manager (from 4.6.0 up to 4.6.0.12)
  • universal-gateway (from 4.6.0 up to 4.6.0.12)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 August 2026 and last revised on 10 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security.docs.wso2.com

Other advisories for this package

api-control-plane has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
api-control-plane 4.6.0 4.6.0.13
api-manager 4.6.0 4.6.0.12
traffic-manager 4.6.0 4.6.0.12
universal-gateway 4.6.0 4.6.0.12

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