Live › vulnerability › CVE-2026-48172
Go to dashboardThe LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin has a privilege escalation flaw in its user-facing cPanel component. Any cPanel user account can abuse it to run arbitrary scripts as root.
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First seen by InfraStack 2026-10-23 19:11 UTC, 5h before NVD. All times on this page are UTC.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
| Product | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin | vendor | – | – |
| litespeedtech litespeed cpanel plugin | vendor | < 2.4.7 | 2.4.7 |
| litespeedtech litespeed whm plugin | vendor | < 5.3.1.0 | 5.3.1.0 |
Unknown from the sources.
Each row is the first time that source carried this signal. The analyst’s rows are its own findings.
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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