# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-1728"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:33:25.717Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-06T12:31:19.553Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-1728"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-1728.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1728"
title: "Privilege Escalation via System REST APIs in Multiple WSO2 Products Permits Admin Account Takeover"
summary: "Tokens issued to a low-privileged user are not sufficiently restricted, allowing them to be used to access product-level Admin REST APIs.\n\nExploitation 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."
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