CVE-2026-48172

LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Litespeed Cpanel Plugin

LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin before 2.4.5 allows privilege escalation (possibly to root), as exploited in the wild in May 2026. Detection is best done via a command line of grep -rE "cpanel_jsonapi_func=redisAble" /var/cpanel/logs /usr/local/cpanel/logs/ 2>/dev/null in Bash. If you get no output, you have not been hit with exploitation of the vulnerability. If there is output, we recommend you examine the IP addresses in the list, determine if they are valid IP…

21. Mai 2026

Ausgewertete Quellen

• Hersteller
  https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/
• CISA
  https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-48172
• CISA
  LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
• NVD
  CVE-2026-48172