CVE•Published 2026-04-29•Modified 2026-05-04•6 articles on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-41940Cpanel · Cpanel
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
97
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 3% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
cPanel and WHM versions after 11.40 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the login flow that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to the control panel.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-29
Modified 2026-05-04
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag6,843 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-41940Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Cpanel Cpanel"All exposed Cpanel Cpanel instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Cpanel"HTTP body or banner mentions "Cpanel" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-41940Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-41940Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-41940Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-41940GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-41940" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (8)
CVE-2026-419408 repos
nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHubunknown
📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.
Mr-xn/Penetration_Testing_POCHTML
渗透测试有关的POC、EXP、脚本、提权、小工具等---About penetration-testing python-script poc getshell csrf xss cms php-getshell domainmod-xss csrf-webshell cobub-razor cve rce sql sql-poc poc-exp bypas…
tanjiti/sec_profileHTML
爬取secwiki和xuanwu.github.io/sec.today,分析安全信息站点、安全趋势、提取安全工作者账号(twitter,weixin,github等)
0xMarcio/cvePython
Latest CVEs with their Proof of Concept exploits.
GhostTroops/TOPShell
TOP All bugbounty pentesting CVE-2023- POC Exp RCE example payload Things
cclank/Hermes-Wikiunknown
Hermes agent + LLM Wiki + 源代码 完成 Hermes agent wiki
ynsmroztas/cPanelSniperPython
CVE-2026-41940 — cPanel & WHM Authentication Bypass via Session-File CRLF Injection
watchtowrlabs/watchTowr-vs-cPanel-WHM-AuthBypass-to-RCE.pyPython