CVE detail
CVE-2026-48172
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 addresses, and if not, block them. To determine damage done, examine the system logs for use by the detected IP addresses. The issue is related to mishandling of Redis enable/disable features. The recommended minimum version is 2.4.7.
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Buzz score components · mention 20.8 · diversity 20.0 · KEV 25.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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7 source links · newest first
- U.S. CISA adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogSecurity Affairs
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw CVE-2026-48172 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score of 10.0) affects the LiteSpeed User-End cPanel plugin before version 2.4.5 and allows […]
newssecurityaffairs.comMay 28, 2026, 9:39 AM Linked URL: https://haltingproblems.com/analysis/litespeed-cpanel-plugin-cve-2026-48172/ | Posted by s4mw1se | 3 points | 0 comments
communitynews.ycombinator.comMay 27, 2026, 12:55 PMResolved last week, the vulnerability was exploited in the wild as a zero-day to execute scripts with root privileges.
newswww.securityweek.comMay 27, 2026, 6:55 AMNo excerpt available.
Mitigationwww.cisa.govMay 21, 2026, 2:16 AM- https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/release-logwww.litespeedtech.com
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Release Noteswww.litespeedtech.comMay 21, 2026, 2:16 AM - https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/cpanelwww.litespeedtech.com
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Release Noteswww.litespeedtech.comMay 21, 2026, 2:16 AM - https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/blog.litespeedtech.com
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Vendor Advisoryblog.litespeedtech.comMay 21, 2026, 2:16 AM
Exploit code
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