A critical vulnerability affecting all but the latest versions of cPanel and the WebHost Manager (WHM) dashboard could be exploited to obtain access to the control panel without authentication. The security issue, currently identified as CVE-2026-41940 and with a severity score of 9.8, has been addressed in an emergency update that requires running a command manually to retrieve a patched version of the software. Owned by WebPros International, WHM and cPanel are Linux-based web hosting control panels for server and website management. While WHM provides server-level control, cPanel provides administrator access to the website backend, webmail, and databases. Both products are among the most widely deployed hosting control panels, popular with many hosting providers for their standardized…