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CISA Warns of CWP Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

The cybersecurity agency CISA on Tuesday warned that a critical vulnerability affecting the Control Web Panel (CWP) server administration software has been exploited in the wild. CWP, previously named CentOS Web Panel, is a free and widely used Linux web hosting control panel that is designed to simplify server management. A vulnerability in CWP, tracked as CVE-2025-48703, allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable systems. An attacker in possession of a valid non-root username can bypass authentication and execute commands using specially crafted requests. The vulnerability was reported to CWP developers in mid-May and patched roughly one month later with the release of version 0.9.8.1205. There do not appear to be any public reports describing…

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Nov 5, 2025
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