Vulnerabilities / LiteSpeed
LiteSpeed vulnerabilities
2 LiteSpeed flaws were confirmed exploited in the wild in the past 365 days. Patch these first.
| Added | Exploited vulnerability | Fix by |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-15 | CVE-2026-54420 LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following Vulnerability LiteSpeed cPanel plugin contains a UNIX symbolic link (Symlink) following vulnerability that could allow a user with FTP or web shell access on a shared hosting server running CloudLinux/CageFS. | 2026-06-18 |
| 2026-05-26 | CVE-2026-48172 LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 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. | 2026-05-29 |
Newest LiteSpeed CVEs
15 of 53 in NVD| 2026-10-29 | CVE-2026-116763 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that wil | 5.4 |
| 2026-10-29 | CVE-2026-109215 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'bbp_reply_content' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, | 6.4 |
| 2026-10-24 | CVE-2026-114190 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Hai Zheng / Lite Speed Cache LiteSpeed Cache litespeed-cache allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects LiteSpeed Cache: from n/a through 7.9. | 5.9 |
| 2026-10-23 | CVE-2026-113501 The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not perform a capability check on its admin-notice dismissal handler, and the nonce it relies on is not bound to the specific notice being dismissed, so on sites in certain configurations a low-privileged authenticated user (Subscriber) can dismiss administrative n | 3.1 |
| 2026-10-23 | CVE-2026-113500 The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not limit one of its HTML optimization routines to stylesheet content, so it can delete the markup that closes an attribute in the rendered page, and combined with unescaped comment author output this allows unauthenticated users whose comments are published to inj | 7.5 |
| 2026-10-23 | CVE-2026-113499 The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not restrict one of its HTML rewriting routines to stylesheet content, so it removes a quote that terminates an attribute in the rendered page, and combined with unescaped comment author output this allows unauthenticated users whose comment is published to inject | 7.5 |
| 2026-09-30 | CVE-2026-93903 LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) before 6.3.7 build 1 mishandles internal redirect URL validation in a certain "corner case." | 9.4 |
| 2026-09-19 | CVE-2026-76579 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'esi' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execut | 4.7 |
| 2026-09-17 | CVE-2026-87935 The Paid Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 3.15 via the admin_request_handler function. This is due to missing authorization and file type validation in the admin_request_handler function, which is reachable unauthenticated via is_admin() returni | 8.1 |
| 2026-09-03 | CVE-2026-84761 Unauthenticated Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in LiteSpeed Cache <= 7.9 versions. | 7.2 |
| 2026-08-28 | CVE-2026-3129 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via crafted `<img>` tag attributes in all versions up to, and including, 7.7. This is due to a flawed regular expression that is used to strip `width` and `height` attributes from images when the "Lazy Load Images" and "Add Missing Si | 6.4 |
| 2026-08-28 | CVE-2026-18978 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 7.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execut | 7.2 |
| 2026-08-16 | CVE-2026-15345 The ShortPixel Adaptive Images – WebP, AVIF, CDN, Image Optimization plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.11.5. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker | 4.3 |
| 2026-06-14 | CVE-2026-54420exploited 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. | 8.5 |
| 2026-05-27 | CVE-2026-3375 The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the /wp-json/litespeed/v1/notify_ccss and /wp-json/litespeed/v1/notify_ucss REST API endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 7.7. These endpoints accept CSS content from QUIC.cloud callback notifications and store it to di | 7.2 |
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Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 2026.10.28 (live), refreshed every 12 hours.