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Cybersecurity researchers have successfully conducted remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation attacks on popular web hosting control platform cPanel & WHM by exploiting a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

While cPanel is limited to managing a single hosting account, cPanel & WHM allows admins to manage the entire server. 

Adam Bannister

11 August 2021 at 10:58 UTC

Updated: 11 August 2021 at 11:02 UTC

Pen testers and vendor disagree over appropriate mitigations

Security researchers have achieved remote code execution (RCE) on web hosting platform cPanel & WHM after bypassing CSRF protections and escalating privileges via a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

cPanel & WHM is a suite of Linux tools that enable the automation of web hosting tasks via a graphical user interface (GUI). cPanel is used in the hosting of more than 168,000 websites, according to Datanyze.

During a black-box pen test, RCE was also demonstrated via a “more convoluted” cross-site WebSocket hijacking attack that was…

Adam Bannister

11 August 2021 at 10:58 UTC

Updated: 11 August 2021 at 14:32 UTC

Pen testers and vendor disagree over appropriate mitigations

Security researchers have achieved remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation on web hosting platform cPanel & WHM via a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

cPanel & WHM is a suite of Linux tools that enable the automation of web hosting tasks via a graphical user interface (GUI). cPanel is used in the hosting of more than 168,000 websites, according to Datanyze.

During a black-box pen test, RCE was also demonstrated via a “more convoluted” CSRF bypass chained with a cross-site WebSocket hijacking attack that was possible…