CVE detail
CVE-2026-48172: LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog · back to feed
Vendor / product
LiteSpeed · cPanel Plugin
- Date added (KEV)
- May 26, 2026
- CISA due date
- May 29, 2026
- Ransomware campaign 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.
Vendor fix: Vendor advisory
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Technical detail
From CISA
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.
https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48172
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- https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/cpanelProduct
- https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/release-logRelease Notes
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48172US Government Resource
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