CVE-2026-48172
CRITICAL KEVLiteSpeed cPanel Plugin < 2.4.5 - Privilege Escalation via Redis Feature Mishandling
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
CVE-2026-48172 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added May 26, 2026. EIP tracks 3 public exploits from researchers including retmakarunia, fevar54, HORKimhab.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The repository contains only a minimal README with no technical details or exploit code. The content appears to be a placeholder or joke ('PRANK WKWK').
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.
Exploits (3)
The repository contains only a minimal README with no technical details or exploit code. The content appears to be a placeholder or joke ('PRANK WKWK').
This repository contains a Python script that audits the local version of the LiteSpeed cPanel plugin to determine if it is vulnerable to CVE-2026-48172. It checks version metadata files and compares the detected version against the known vulnerable version (2.4.7).
The repository contains only boilerplate legal disclaimers, a license file, and a template file with no actual exploit code or technical details about CVE-2026-48172.
References (4)
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H