CVE catalog
CVE-2026-48172
LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin before 2.4.5 allows privilege escalation (possibly to root), as exploited in the wild in May 2026. Detection is best done via a command line of grep -rE "cpanel_jsonap
- Severity
- Critical · CVSS 10
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- Exploitation
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
- EPSS
- 17.91% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cpe | litespeed_cpanel_plugin | Not reported | 2.4.7 | fixed |
| Cpe | litespeed_whm_plugin | Not reported | 5.3.1.0 | fixed |
| Cpe | litespeed_cpanel_plugin | Not reported | 2.4.7 | fixed |
| Cpe | litespeed_whm_plugin | Not reported | 5.3.1.0 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cpe | litespeed_cpanel_plugin | cpe | Not reported | 2.4.7 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | litespeed_whm_plugin | cpe | Not reported | 5.3.1.0 | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Cpe | litespeed_cpanel_plugin | cpe | Not reported | 2.4.7 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2026-48172 | Not reported |
| Cpe | litespeed_whm_plugin | cpe | Not reported | 5.3.1.0 | Not reported | NVD-CVE-2026-48172 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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