Summary
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.
- Vendor
- LiteSpeed
- Product
- cPanel Plugin
- Added to KEV
- May 26, 2026
- Remediation due
- May 29, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- EPSS
- 17.9% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References