CVE-2026-48172

May 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.

10.0
Critical

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Litespeed
  • Litespeed Cpanel Plugin
  • <2.4.5

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-266
Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a litespeed litespeed_cpanel_plugin <2.4.5 / / / / / / /

References

https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/cpanel
https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/control-panel-support/release-log

Tags

[email protected]
CWE-266
2026-05-21
CVE-2026-48172

CVSS Score

10.0 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • 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

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Timeline

Published: May 21, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
Last Modified: May 21, 2026, 6:16 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

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Source

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