CVE-2026-48172

UNKNOWNKnown Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48172

Remediation deadline: May 29, 2026

Description

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.

Timeline

Published:May 26th, 2026 12:00 AM

Last modified:May 26th, 2026 12:00 AM

Added to KEV:May 26th, 2026

CVSS Scoring

No CVSS v3 score available

Affected Software

From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

LiteSpeed

Products

cPanel Plugin

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-266

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

No references available.

Source: CISA KEV + NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute