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WSO2 API Manager

By WSO2 Bug bounty on Sorona wso2.com

Accepting reports open-source
Top reward
$500
Top severity paid
Critical
Assets in scope
8
Public CVEs
83
Last change
No changes yet

At a glance

What to know before you start testing.

Pays up to $500
for critical bugs.
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
Paid by PayPal, Amazon voucher
No identity requirement stated.
Publish after a fix
Coordinate the timing with the company.

Rewards

What Sorona lists as the payout for each severity.

Severity Reward
Critical $500
High $250
Medium $100
Low $50
Safe harbor
Partial Sorona will not pursue legal action against you for good-faith research submitted to us in line with this policy. We cannot speak for the upstream project, its vendor, or any third party, and we do not grant authorization on their behalf.

Summarised with AI from the program policy on Sorona, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Scope

8 assets you may test, 9 excluded.

Web 1

  • https://wso2.com/api-manager

Products and areas 7

  • The carbon-apimgt core libraries and the Carbon runtime underneath them, including the management console, the registry and the user-store and role plumbing
  • The Key Manager, covering OAuth2 and OIDC token issuance, introspection, key generation, scope enforcement and the identity flows API Manager runs on top of
  • The programme fixes the testing target rather than the bug class: any security issue you can demonstrate on a WSO2 build running on infrastructure you control, on a deployment you own, or in your own tenant of a WSO2 cloud service
  • The Publisher, Developer Portal and Admin Portal applications, together with the publisher, devportal, admin and service-catalogue REST APIs behind them
  • The Synapse-based API Gateway data plane in full: mediation sequences, message transformation, XML and JSON payload handling, the throttling and Traffic Manager path, and the gateway's own caches
  • The WSO2 Reward and Acknowledgement Program declares five product families in scope: Agent Platform, API Platform, Integration Platform, Identity Platform and Developer Platform. API Manager is the API Platform product, and the build the programme points you at is the self-hosted Apache-2.0 distribution, wso2/product-apim on top of wso2/carbon-apimgt
  • What a stock deployment exposes on top of that: multi-tenant isolation, API and application lifecycle operations, subscription and key management, and the tooling shipped in the distribution
Out of scope (9)
  • Any customer-owned deployment of WSO2 software: the target is your own instance or your own tenant, and somebody else's installation is out of bounds
  • Duplicates: only the first reporter of an issue is paid
  • Findings that need administrative credentials you were handed, or a configuration you weakened yourself, to reach at all
  • Network-level and volumetric denial of service against WSO2 services
  • Out-of-date bundled libraries with no working exploit against the shipped product, and any report without a working proof of concept
  • Self-XSS, clickjacking without demonstrated impact, version disclosure, stack traces, missing headers and TLS hardening preferences standing on their own
  • Third-party assets and non-WSO2 domains, which belong to whoever runs them
  • Versions at or below 2.1.0, which the repository's supported-versions table places outside support
  • WSO2-operated websites such as wso2.com, internal staging environments and demo sites, all named out of scope by the programme

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Sorona's policy.

While testing

  • Test only against a self-hosted WSO2 build on infrastructure you control, a deployment you own, or your own tenant in a WSO2 cloud service: never against a WSO2-operated site or somebody else's installation
  • Versions at or below 2.1.0 are unsupported per the repository's supported-versions table, so a finding that only reproduces there is not eligible
  • Include a working proof of concept, and do not rely on administrative credentials you were handed to reach the bug

Not accepted

  • Self-XSS, clickjacking without demonstrated impact, version disclosure, stack traces, missing headers and TLS hardening preferences standing on their own
  • Out-of-date bundled libraries with no working exploit against the shipped product, and any report without a working proof of concept
  • Findings that need administrative credentials you were handed, or a configuration you weakened yourself, to reach at all
  • Duplicates: only the first reporter of an issue is paid

Summarised with AI from the program policy on Sorona, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Changes

Tracked since 11 Nov 2026. Last checked 1 hour ago.

No changes yet. When the rewards or scope move, you will see it here and in the RSS feed.

Public CVEs

Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.

Search NVD
CVESeverityPublished
CVE-2025-12737 High 8.4 3 Sep 2026
CVE-2026-3416 Medium 5.9 3 Sep 2026
CVE-2026-5430 Critical 10.0 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-1728 Critical 9.8 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-13736 Low 3.7 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-13909 Medium 4.3 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-14779 Low 3.8 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-15039 Critical 9.4 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-0637 Medium 5.4 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2024-6832 Medium 5.9 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2024-8995 Medium 4.9 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-11850 Medium 4.3 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-12627 Low 2.4 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2025-13394 Medium 5.4 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2024-10302 Medium 4.0 6 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-2445 Medium 6.1 20 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-4249 High 8.6 6 Jul 2026
CVE-2025-8591 Medium 6.1 6 Jul 2026
CVE-2024-1248 Medium 4.8 4 Jul 2026
CVE-2025-13475 Low 3.5 4 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-2053 High 8.3 26 Jun 2026
CVE-2025-10470 High 8.6 11 May 2026
CVE-2025-9973 Medium 6.4 11 May 2026
CVE-2025-10908 High 7.3 11 May 2026
CVE-2025-8154 Medium 5.3 11 May 2026
CVE-2025-8325 Medium 6.3 11 May 2026
CVE-2024-0391 Medium 5.3 11 May 2026
CVE-2025-10503 Medium 6.1 29 Apr 2026
CVE-2025-12624 Medium 6.0 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2024-4867 Medium 5.4 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2024-8010 Low 3.5 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2025-6024 Medium 6.1 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2024-10242 Medium 6.1 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2024-2374 High 7.5 16 Apr 2026
CVE-2024-1524 High 7.7 24 Feb 2026
CVE-2025-13590 Critical 9.1 19 Feb 2026
CVE-2025-12107 High 8.4 19 Feb 2026
CVE-2025-9312 Critical 9.8 18 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-6670 High 8.8 18 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-10853 Medium 5.2 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-5770 Medium 6.1 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-11093 High 8.4 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-10907 High 8.4 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-10713 Medium 6.5 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-3125 Medium 6.7 5 Nov 2025
CVE-2025-5350 Medium 5.9 24 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-5605 Medium 4.3 24 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-9152 Critical 9.8 16 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-9804 Critical 9.6 16 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-9955 Medium 5.7 16 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-10611 Critical 9.8 16 Oct 2025
CVE-2025-1862 Medium 6.7 26 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-1396 Low 3.7 26 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-0672 Low 3.3 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-0209 Medium 6.1 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-0663 Medium 6.8 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2024-6429 Medium 4.3 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-5717 Medium 6.8 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-4760 Medium 4.8 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2024-4598 Medium 6.5 23 Sep 2025

Original policy

Copied from sorona.xyz on 12 Nov 2026. The summaries on this page are made from it; the live page may have changed since.

Skip to content What this pays sorona.xyz pays 1.25× the program's reward, up to +$1,000 per finding, plus a complexity bonus of up to $1,000 for especially complex or well-chained bugs. Finding │ Program pays │ Through sorona.xyz Critical (CVSS 9.0-10.0) │ $500 │ $625 High (CVSS 7.0-8.9) │ $250 │ $313 Medium (CVSS 4.0-6.9) │ $100 │ $125 Low (CVSS >0 to 3.9) │ $50 │ $63 Submit a vulnerability CVE history 31 Last 12 months 83 Lifetime Access control 30 % XSS 20 % Injection 20 % Auth bypass 20 % Latest advisories Loading the feed Overview WSO2 API Manager is the most widely deployed fully open-source enterprise API gateway outside the Kong and Apigee axis: an Apache-2.0 Synapse-based data plane in wso2/product-apim , with the shared carbon-apimgt libraries underneath it and an OAuth2/OIDC key manager issuing and validating the tokens every request is checked against. It runs in government digital-identity and open-banking programmes across Europe, Latin America, South Asia and the Gulf, in telco BSS and OSS stacks, and in healthcare integration, deployments that skew regulated, internet-facing and slow to patch, which is exactly the profile in which a gateway authentication bypass matters most, and the reason WSO2 products keep reappearing on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. The defect rate is unusually high for a product of this size: 83 CVEs lifetime and 31 in the last twelve months, which is evidence that the vendor is genuinely assigning identifiers against the open-source distribution rather than quietly sitting on findings. WSO2 pays by CVSS band on its own Reward and Acknowledgement Program, $500 for a Critical down to $50 for a Low, in cash by PayPal or as an Amazon voucher at the reporter's choice. That is an order of magnitude below the big cloud rails in this niche, which is why the uplift matters here: sorona.xyz adds 1.25× on top of whatever WSO2 awards, up to $1,000 more, plus a complexity bonus of up to $1,000 for a well-chained finding. In scope The WSO2 Reward and Acknowledgement Program declares five product families in scope: Agent Platform, API Platform, Integration Platform, Identity Platform and Developer Platform. API Manager is the API Platform product, and the build the programme points you at is the self-hosted Apache-2.0 distribution, wso2/product-apim on top of wso2/carbon-apimgt The programme fixes the testing target rather than the bug class: any security issue you can demonstrate on a WSO2 build running on infrastructure you control, on a deployment you own, or in your own tenant of a WSO2 cloud service The Synapse-based API Gateway data plane in full: mediation sequences, message transformation, XML and JSON payload handling, the throttling and Traffic Manager path, and the gateway's own caches The Key Manager, covering OAuth2 and OIDC token issuance, introspection, key generation, scope enforcement and the identity flows API Manager runs on top of The Publisher, Developer Portal and Admin Portal applications, together with the publisher, devportal, admin and service-catalogue REST APIs behind them The carbon-apimgt core libraries and the Carbon runtime underneath them, including the management console, the registry and the user-store and role plumbing What a stock deployment exposes on top of that: multi-tenant isolation, API and application lifecycle operations, subscription and key management, and the tooling shipped in the distribution Out of scope WSO2-operated websites such as wso2.com, internal staging environments and demo sites, all named out of scope by the programme Any customer-owned deployment of WSO2 software: the target is your own instance or your own tenant, and somebody else's installation is out of bounds Third-party assets and non-WSO2 domains, which belong to whoever runs them Versions at or below 2.1.0, which the repository's supported-versions table places outside support Network-level and volumetric denial of service against WSO2 services Self-XSS, clickjacking without demonstrated impact, version disclosure, stack traces, missing headers and TLS hardening preferences standing on their own Out-of-date bundled libraries with no working exploit against the shipped product, and any report without a working proof of concept Findings that need administrative credentials you were handed, or a configuration you weakened yourself, to reach at all Duplicates: only the first reporter of an issue is paid Most-valued findings Authentication or authorization bypass at the gateway that reaches a backend API the deployment meant to protect. Access control is the largest recorded class here at roughly thirty per cent, and on an internet-facing gateway fronting a regulated backend it is the finding most likely to grade 9.0 and pay the $500 top rung. Key Manager defects in token issuance, introspection or scope enforcement: a forged, replayed or over-scoped token is an authentication bypass for every API behind the gateway at once rather than for a single route Pre-authentication remote code execution on a stock install, whether through file upload, deserialization or an unauthenticated management endpoint. That is the shape that put WSO2 products on CISA KEV. Injection through mediation: XXE, entity expansion or command and expression injection driven by a request body the gateway parses before it has decided whether the caller is allowed to send it Cross-tenant access in a shared deployment, where the isolation boundary is the only thing separating unrelated organisations on one gateway Stored XSS in the Publisher or Developer Portal that fires in an administrator's session and chains into an API or subscription change, rather than a reflected payload with nothing behind it Program rules Submit through sorona.xyz first. We validate, coordinate with the program's security team, and add the payout uplift on top of whatever it awards. Test only against a self-hosted WSO2 build on infrastructure you control, a deployment you own, or your own tenant in a WSO2 cloud service: never against a WSO2-operated site or somebody else's installation Versions at or below 2.1.0 are unsupported per the repository's supported-versions table, so a finding that only reproduces there is not eligible Include a working proof of concept, and do not rely on administrative credentials you were handed to reach the bug WSO2 grades severity itself and fixes the payout by CVSS band; the reward is released only after the fix is announced, and fixes can take up to 90 days Keep every communication about the report on WSO2's documented channels: public posts that violate responsible disclosure, or that reflect negatively on the programme or the WSO2 brand, disqualify you from reward consideration Disclosure Coordinated with WSO2's security team through [email protected] , the address product-apim 's own SECURITY.md points at. The written restriction asks you not to disclose in any forum, public or private, until WSO2 has completed its vulnerability management process, a bounded embargo rather than an indefinite gag, so sorona.xyz holds your finding until the fix has been announced. Safe harbor Sorona will not pursue legal action against you for good-faith research submitted to us in line with this policy. We cannot speak for the upstream project, its vendor, or any third party, and we do not grant authorization on their behalf. You are responsible for understanding and following the laws that apply to you, wherever you are, and for staying within any scope the project has defined. Submit a vulnerability