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CVE-2026-48172

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
10.0
EPSS
0.18914
Risk score
71.62
CISA KEV
Yes
PoC
Yes
Published
2026-05-21
Modified
2026-05-27
First seen
2026-08-05
Aliases
EUVD-2026-31204, GHSA-FXRH-CWJH-M33V
Products
LiteSpeed Technologies:WHM Plugin 0 <5.3.1.0, LiteSpeed Technologies:cPanel Plugin 2.3 <2.4.7, LiteSpeed:cPanel Plugin, litespeedtech:litespeed_cpanel_plugin, litespeedtech:litespeed_whm_plugin
Sources
nvd CVE-2026-48172
euvd EUVD-2026-31204
cisa.gov CVE-2026-48172
packetstorm e1b15243aca2ad53b47ce4cf|CVE-2026-48172

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.

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