Actively exploitedCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

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.

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Analysis

El plugin de LiteSpeed para cPanel y WHM permite a cualquier usuario autenticado escalar privilegios hasta nivel root mediante la ejecución de scripts arbitrarios. Esta vulnerabilidad está siendo explotada activamente en entornos reales y compromete la integridad de todo el servidor Linux. Es fundamental actualizar a la versión 2.4.7 de inmediato para evitar el control total del sistema por parte de atacantes.

Relevant roles

BackendCyberSecurityLinuxPhpCloud

Severity

Score: 9.8(CRITICAL)

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AV: NETWORK

AC: LOW

PR: NONE

UI: NONE

S: UNCHANGED

C: HIGH

I: HIGH

A: HIGH

Weakness (CWE): CWE-266

CISA KEV

Added to KEV: 2026-05-26

Federal patch deadline: 2026-05-29

Known ransomware use: Unknown

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS

Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0796 (8.0%)

Percentile: 92.2%

EPSS: 2026-06-09

Affects

litespeedtech:litespeed_cpanel_pluginlitespeedtech:litespeed_whm_plugin

Technical description

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_jsonapi_func=redisAble" /var/cpanel/logs /usr/local/cpanel/logs/ 2>/dev/null in Bash. If you get no output, you have not been hit with exploitation of the vulnerability. If there is output, we recommend you examine the IP addresses in the list, determine if they are valid IP addresses, and if not, block them. To determine damage done, examine the system logs for use by the detected IP addresses. The issue is related to mishandling of Redis enable/disable features. The recommended minimum version is 2.4.7.

Published: 5/21/2026, 2:16:33 AM

Last modified: 5/26/2026, 8:19:13 PM

References

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CVSS 10.0

CVSS 10.0 — máxima severidad teórica. Explotable de forma remota, sin privilegios, con impacto total. Aún no confirmada como explotada en el mundo real, pero parchea ya.

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