Coverage › CVE-2026-48172
CVE-2026-48172 Unmapped
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- LiteSpeed — cPanel Plugin
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-05-26 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
- Due date
- 2026-05-29
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-266
- CISA notes
- https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2026/05/21/security-update-for-litespeed-cpanel-plugin/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48172 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2026-48172. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-05-26, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-266) — here is why — and does not guess.
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