{"id":80540,"date":"2026-06-14T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-54420-litespeed-cpanel-plugin-symlink-privilege-escalation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:16:28","slug":"cve-2026-54420-litespeed-cpanel-plugin-symlink-privilege-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-54420-litespeed-cpanel-plugin-symlink-privilege-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-54420 &#8211; LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Symlink Privilege Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-54420<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 14, 2026, 4:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 25\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :LiteSpeed cPanel plugin before 2.4.8 (as distributed in LiteSpeed WHM PlugIn before 5.3.2.0) mishandles symlinks provided by a user with FTP or web shell access on a shared hosting server running CloudLinux\/CageFS, as exploited in the wild in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.5 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-54420 Published : June 14, 2026, 4:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 25\u00a0minutes ago Description :LiteSpeed cPanel plugin before 2.4.8 (as distributed in LiteSpeed WHM PlugIn before 5.3.2.0) mishandles symlinks provided by a user with FTP or web shell access on a shared hosting server running CloudLinux\/CageFS, as exploited in the wild in May 2026. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}