Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel and WHM

(techcrunch.com)

40 points | by dotmanish 2 days ago ago

7 comments

  • sikozu 2 days ago ago

    There must be so many (small) shared hosting companies that don't update their software, those poor customers.

  • dspillett 2 days ago ago

    With this (CVE-2026-41940) and copy.fail (CVE-2026-3143), it must be an exciting time in the shared hosting business right now… Glad I've been out of it for a long time.

  • aitchnyu a day ago ago

    Which are the safest control panels^ ? Been thinking about Hostineer which developed and dogfooded ApisCP over 20 years.

    [^] a product made for commercial operators stuffing thousands of PHP sites into a server, so no Coolify, Google Cloud Run.

  • ChrisArchitect 2 days ago ago
    • sikozu 2 days ago ago

      Thanks for sharing, this is a great read!

  • jmclnx a day ago ago

    Luckily my site uses Plesk after moving away from cPanel years ago.

    I have to wonder if this issue is due to never reviewing auto-test scripts ?

    I know where I worked, testing is now an afterthought and half the time testing means no issues compiling and deploying :)

    We had a separate testing group and they caught lots of issues. But due to Agile, they were all fired years ago.

    • cestith a day ago ago

      Plesk is a separate team owned by the same parent company.