CRITICALCVSS 9.8Actively exploited · CISA KEV since 2026-05-26Vulnerability

CVE-2026-48172

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.

Properties

Euvd product
cPanel Plugin, WHM Plugin
Vulnerability name
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
First seen
2026-10-07T18:11:52+00:00
Cvss score
9.8
Epss score
0.01011
Last seen
2026-10-19T12:00:27+00:00
Due date
2026-05-29
Euvd assigner
mitre
Retrieved at
2026-10-21T01:24:49+00:00
Exploited euvd since
2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
Src batch id
epss_history-20261020T103617Z-728ddd
Source url
https://epss.empiricalsecurity.com/epss_scores-2026-10-19.csv.gz
Date added
2026-05-26
Score
9.8
Euvd base score version
4.0
Fetched at
2026-10-20T10:36:20+00:00
Euvd vendor
LiteSpeed Technologies
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Euvd base score
10

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