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CVE record · CVE-2026-1728

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

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0048 · 41st percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: WSO2) at 6 Aug 2026, 07:33 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
VendorProductVersions
WSO2 WSO2 API Manager
  • unknown before 4.0.0 custom
  • affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.0.384 custom
  • affected 4.1.0 to before 4.1.0.248 custom
  • affected 4.2.0 to before 4.2.0.188 custom
  • affected 4.3.0 to before 4.3.0.99 custom
  • affected 4.4.0 to before 4.4.0.63 custom
  • affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.48 custom
  • affected 4.6.0 to before 4.6.0.12 custom
Other versions: unaffected
WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane
  • affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.49 custom
  • affected 4.6.0 to before 4.6.0.13 custom
Other versions: unaffected
WSO2 WSO2 Universal Gateway
  • affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.48 custom
  • affected 4.6.0 to before 4.6.0.12 custom
Other versions: unaffected
WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager
  • affected 4.5.0 to before 4.5.0.47 custom
  • affected 4.6.0 to before 4.6.0.12 custom
Other versions: unaffected
WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Common Functions Package name: org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.common
  • affected 9.0.174 to before 9.0.174.550 custom
  • affected 9.28.116 to before 9.28.116.404 custom
  • affected 9.29.120 to before 9.29.120.221 custom
  • affected 9.30.67 to before 9.30.67.146 custom
  • affected 9.31.86 to before 9.31.86.130 custom
  • affected 9.32.147 to before 9.32.147.26 custom
  • unaffected 9.33.27 to *, inclusive custom
Other versions: unknown
WSO2 WSO2 Carbon API Manager Rest API Utility Package name: org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.util
  • affected 9.20.74 to before 9.20.74.392 custom
  • unaffected 9.33.27 to *, inclusive custom
Other versions: unknown
Identifiers
CVE-2026-1728
CNA
WSO2
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269
Tags
Published
6 Aug 2026
Updated
6 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (WSO2)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0048, the 41st 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 6 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.