16 June 2026.
The Hacker News report that "U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog".
"The vulnerability ... has been described as a case of privilege escalation."
Server administrators have been "advised to upgrade to LiteSpeed WHM Plugin v5.3.2.1 or higher to patch the vulnerability".
Source: The Hacker News.
Read more: CISA flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin flaw exploited for root privilege escalation
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