CVE-2025-14561 Access Control Bypass via Publisher REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows Cross-Tenant Operations
Privileged users in multi-tenant WSO2 deployments can bypass tenant isolation to modify API metadata in other tenants.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14561?
CVE-2025-14561 is a critical missing authorization vulnerability in WSO2 API Control Plane, published on 6 Aug 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14561?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14561?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14561 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-14561 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14561 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-78r2-rh3v-h2fx.