VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-48172

critical KEV
EUVD alias: EUVD-2026-31204
Published 2026-05-21 · Modified 2026-05-26
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
10.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
VIR risk
10.0

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.

CISA KEV

Vendor
LiteSpeed
Product
cPanel Plugin
Due date
2026-05-29

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
litespeedtechlitespeed_cpanel_plugin{"endExcluding":"2.4.7"}2.4.7
litespeedtechlitespeed_whm_plugin{"endExcluding":"5.3.1.0"}5.3.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-266

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.