CVE-2008-2478

highpriority · attend · 45EPSS 0.042 · 91 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

4.21% (91st) EPSS

CVSS 8.5 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

scripts/wwwacct in cPanel 11.18.6 STABLE and earlier and 11.23.1 CURRENT and earlier allows remote authenticated users with reseller privileges to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the Email address field (aka Email text box). NOTE: the vendor disputes this, stating "I'm unable to reproduce such an issue on multiple servers running different versions of cPanel.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 10

v2.07.7highAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-31807cPanel 11.21 - 'wwwact' Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
cpanel cpanel≤ 11.23.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpanel cpanel≤ 11.8.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-05-28modified 2026-06-16

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references (10)

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