LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
High Listed in CISA KEV
Summary
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.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- LiteSpeed:cPanel Plugin
Sources
- CISA KEV DATABASE
Original Links
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48172 advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog kev
- https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/ reference
Timeline
- kev_added CISA KEV
- kev_ingest CISA KEV