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Critical cPanel Flaw Could Let One Hosting Customer Take Root Control of a Whole Server
cPanel patched critical flaw CVE-2026-65643 letting authenticated hosting customers with addon or parked domain rights execute code as root and fully compromise servers.
cPanel issued patches on August 27, 2026 for CVE-2026-65643, a flaw in domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel & WHM that lets an authenticated account holder create arbitrary files and execute code as root, yielding full server control. Fixed builds cover the 11.110, 11.134, 11.136 and 11.138 branches, including WP Squared 11.138.1.7, and auto-update servers receive the fix automatically. No CVSS score, published CVE record, or evidence of exploitation has appeared, and the flaw is absent from CISA's KEV catalog as of August 27. The article also recaps related 2026 cPanel-ecosystem issues, including KEV-listed LiteSpeed plugin flaws and the in-the-wild-exploited Phusion Passenger problem.
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U.S. CISA adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
CISA added actively exploited flaws in Cisco ISE, Acronis Backup, and Google Pixel (CVE-2026-76460, CVE-2026-87886, CVE-2026-58704) to its KEV catalog.
CISA added three actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: CVE-2026-76460 (CVSS 10.0), an unauthenticated API authentication bypass in Cisco Identity Services Engine that Cisco confirms is being actively exploited; CVE-2026-87886, a local privilege escalation in the Acronis Backup plugins for cPanel/WHM and Plesk exploited in limited targeted attacks; and CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS 8.8), a Google Pixel cellular modem permission bypass exploited in limited, targeted attacks and patched in the September 2026 Pixel update. Under BOD 22-01, federal agencies must remediate KEV entries by the stated due dates. Google has not attributed the Pixel exploitation to any actor.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Router Hijacks, Coder Supply Chain Attack and More
Weekly recap: actively exploited Chrome V8 zero-day, MikroTik RouterOS zero-day chain, Magento StyleSmuggler backdoor, and critical N-able N-central flaws.
Google patched an actively exploited Chrome V8 type confusion zero-day, CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS 8.8), the sixth exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. CERT Polska warned of the MikroTrick exploit chain (CVE-2026-67276 and CVE-2026-86060, CVSS 9.2) giving unauthenticated full control of MikroTik RouterOS devices via SSH, observed since September 2. Sansec disclosed the StyleSmuggler Magento/Adobe Commerce zero-day used since September 4 to inject a Rust backdoor into online stores, while N-able patched three critical N-central flaws (CVE-2026-86206, CVE-2026-86207, and CVE-2026-86218, CVSS 10.0) with Huntress observing likely exploitation. Elastic and Morphisec also detailed RevStealer, an information stealer spread via game cheats and a fake Claude Desktop app.
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