# Improper Access Control via Gateway API in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Unauthorized Operations

CVE record · `CVE-2025-8325`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-8325`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 6.3 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** WSO2
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-281](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/281.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-281](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-281.md)
- **Technologies:** [WSO2 API Control Plane](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-api-control-plane.md) · [WSO2 Universal Gateway](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-universal-gateway.md) · [WSO2 Traffic Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-traffic-manager.md) · [WSO2 API Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-api-manager.md) · [WSO2 Carbon API Management Implementation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-api-management-implementation.md) · [WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/wso2-carbon-api-manager-rest-api-utility.md)
- **Published:** 11 May 2026
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: WSO2) at 11 May 2026, 09:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 API Control Plane.
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.18` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Universal Gateway.
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.17` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Traffic Manager.
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.17` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 API Manager.
  - unknown: `before 3.2.0` (custom)
  - affected: `3.2.0 to before 3.2.0.435` (custom)
  - affected: `3.2.1 to before 3.2.1.55` (custom)
  - affected: `4.0.0 to before 4.0.0.355` (custom)
  - affected: `4.1.0 to before 4.1.0.219` (custom)
  - affected: `4.2.0 to before 4.2.0.157` (custom)
  - affected: `4.3.0 to before 4.3.0.70` (custom)
  - affected: `4.4.0 to before 4.4.0.33` (custom)
  - affected: `4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.17` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon API Management Implementation.
  - affected: `6.7.206 to before 6.7.206.563` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.210 to before 6.7.210.55` (custom)
  - affected: `9.0.174 to before 9.0.174.513` (custom)
  - affected: `9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.375` (custom)
  - affected: `9.28.116 to before 9.28.116.352` (custom)
  - affected: `9.29.120 to before 9.29.120.177` (custom)
  - affected: `9.30.67 to before 9.30.67.100` (custom)
  - affected: `9.31.86 to before 9.31.86.58` (custom)
  - unaffected: `9.32.75 to *, inclusive` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl`
- Vendor: WSO2. Product: WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility.
  - affected: `6.7.206 to before 6.7.206.563` (custom)
  - affected: `6.7.210 to before 6.7.210.55` (custom)
  - affected: `9.0.174 to before 9.0.174.513` (custom)
  - affected: `9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.375` (custom)
  - affected: `9.28.116 to before 9.28.116.352` (custom)
  - affected: `9.29.120 to before 9.29.120.177` (custom)
  - affected: `9.30.67 to before 9.30.67.100` (custom)
  - affected: `9.31.86 to before 9.31.86.58` (custom)
  - unaffected: `9.32.75 to *, inclusive` (custom)
  - Other versions: unknown
  - Package name: `org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.util`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 6.3 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`, from CNA (WSO2)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-8325](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8325)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-8325](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8325)

### References from the CNA

- <https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4401/> (vendor-advisory)

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