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.

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-269

https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2026-5077/

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