CVE-2026-48172
Privilege Escalation in LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin. CISA confirmed attackers exploit it and added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 26 May 2026.
- Product
- LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin
- Added to CISA's catalog
- Federal fix-by date
- Ransomware
- No known use in ransomware campaigns
- Sources
- CISA’s catalog, NVD entry
CISA’s 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.
More from LiteSpeed this year.
- CVE-2026-54420 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following, added
Every flaw CISA confirmed exploited in the last 30 days is on the exploit watch. This is not security advice. Check the vendor’s advisory before acting. From CISA’s catalog of 4 November 2026.