CVE-2026-48172

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVSS 4.0 Critical 10.0Known exploited (CISA KEV)

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. 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.

Key data

CVSS 4.0 Critical 10.0

Score published by mitre in the CVE record.

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

Attack vector: Network
The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.
Attack complexity: Low
No measurable action is needed to get around the system's built-in security controls. The attack is repeatable.
Attack requirements: None
The attack works without any special deployment or execution conditions.
Privileges required: None
No account or privileges are needed.
User interaction: None
No action from any user is needed.
Vulnerable system: confidentiality: High
Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.
Vulnerable system: integrity: High
Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.
Vulnerable system: availability: High
Serious or total effect on availability.
Subsequent systems: confidentiality: High
Serious or total effect on other systems' data secrecy.
Subsequent systems: integrity: High
Serious or total effect on other systems' data trustworthiness.
Subsequent systems: availability: High
Serious or total effect on other systems' availability.

Metric	Value	What it means
Attack vector	Network	The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.
Attack complexity	Low	No measurable action is needed to get around the system's built-in security controls. The attack is repeatable.
Attack requirements	None	The attack works without any special deployment or execution conditions.
Privileges required	None	No account or privileges are needed.
User interaction	None	No action from any user is needed.
Vulnerable system: confidentiality	High	Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.
Vulnerable system: integrity	High	Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.
Vulnerable system: availability	High	Serious or total effect on availability.
Subsequent systems: confidentiality	High	Serious or total effect on other systems' data secrecy.
Subsequent systems: integrity	High	Serious or total effect on other systems' data trustworthiness.
Subsequent systems: availability	High	Serious or total effect on other systems' availability.

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EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.

Score: 0.17915 (17.9% probability)
Percentile: 97.2%
Scores of: Nov 10, 2026
Model: v2026.06.15

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

This CVE is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Name in the catalog: LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Added to the catalog: May 26, 2026
Federal due date: May 29, 2026

CISA assessment as of May 27, 2026

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.

Exploitation: Recorded by CISA as active
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Weakness (CWE)

CWE catalog version 5.0.

CWE-266Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected products

Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.

LiteSpeed Technologies cPanel Plugin
- affected: 2.3 up to before 2.4.7
LiteSpeed Technologies WHM Plugin
- affected: before 5.3.1.0

References

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Timeline

ID reservedMay 21, 2026
Record publishedMay 21, 2026
Added to CISA KEVMay 26, 2026
Record last updatedOct 7, 2026

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