Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2026-48172

TLP:CLEAR

LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin contains privilege escalation vulnerability that is exposed via the user-end cPanel plugin, which can be abused by any cPanel user account to execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges.

Facts

  • Vendor: LiteSpeed
  • Product: cPanel Plugin
  • CVSS: 10
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 17.9 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 26 May 2026
  • First known exploitation: 26 May 2026
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 29 May 2026
  • Weakness: CWE-266
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 26 May 2026

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD