Vulnerability · Published May 8, 2026 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-67888
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-severity OS command injection in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.6% (higher than 90% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Control Web Panel (CWP) before 0.9.8.1209. User input passed via the "key" GET parameter to /admin/index.php (when the "api" parameter is set) is not properly sanitized before being used to execute OS commands. This can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with the privileges of root on the web server. Softaculous or SitePad must be present.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L