CVE•Published 2026-05-29•Modified 2026-07-21•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-44962
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
49
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 51% of all CVEs
Description
Plesk contains an XPath injection vulnerability in the APS Application Catalog search functionality, where user-supplied input is interpolated into XPath queries without proper sanitization. This allows an authenticated, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the server, resulting in local privilege escalation.
Timeline
Published 2026-05-29
Modified 2026-07-21
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).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-44962Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-44962Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-44962Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-44962GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-44962" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-44962 on GitHub.