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title: "CVE-2025-11969: WSO2 API Manager - Broken Access Control"
description: "WSO2 API Manager contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by improper enforcement of access control mechanisms in System REST APIs, letting users with lower privileges perform unauthorized administrative actions, exploit requires access to System REST APIs."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2025-11969/
---

# CVE-2025-11969 WSO2 API Manager - Broken Access Control

WSO2 API Manager contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by improper enforcement of access control mechanisms in System REST APIs, letting users with lower privileges perform unauthorized administrative actions, exploit requires access to System REST APIs.

CVSS base score 9.4 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11969)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Broken Access Control

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Published

2 November 2026

Updated

3 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-285](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/285.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of WSO2 API Manager where access control is properly enforced.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11969](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11969)
- [https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4733/](https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2025-4733/)

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