CVE-2026-48172 — LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Overview
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin contains privilege escalation vulnerability that is exposed via the user-end cPanel plugin, which can be abused by any cPanel user account to execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-48172
- Vulnerability
- LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor
- LiteSpeed
- Affected products
- LiteSpeed: cPanel Plugin
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- EPSS score
- 1.2% probability of exploitation in 30 days · 65th percentile
- Published
- 2026-05-26
Remediation guidance
CVE-2026-48172 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for LiteSpeed the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.2% probability that CVE-2026-48172 will be exploited within the next 30 days (65th percentile of all CVEs) — useful for risk-based patch sequencing.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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