CVE 10 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-48172_CVE-2026-48172

10 / 10
CRITICAL
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

Description

LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin before 2.4.5 allows privilege escalation (possibly to root), as exploited in the wild in May 2026. LiteSpeed WHM Plugin (the parent plugin) is unaffected. 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.

AI Analysis

Privilege escalation vulnerability in LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin before 2.4.5

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-48172
Source mitre
Published May 21, 2026 at 00:38

Affected Product

Vendor LiteSpeed Technologies
Product cPanel Plugin
Version 2.3
Affected Versions LiteSpeed Technologies cPanel Plugin 2.3

CWE Classification

AI Assessment

AI Score 10 / 10
AI Severity Critical
Vendor LiteSpeed Technologies
Product LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin
Version 2.3

References

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