cve-2026-43641

CRITICAL CVSS 9.3 cvelistv5
Description

Softaculous Virtualizor before 3.2.9 (Patch 9) and 3.0.0 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the billing module handler that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by bypassing authentication through specific parameter combinations. Attackers can deserialize a crafted billing_data POST field and inject shell payloads through the uid field, which is passed unmodified to proc_open() via vexec(), yielding complete control of the host and all managed VPS instances.

Timeline
Published
2026-09-22 17:51 UTC
Last Modified
2026-09-23
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
Affected Products
  • Softaculous Virtualizor
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-78
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) CISA Coordinator v2.0.3
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Decision timestamp
2026-09-23T15:40:21.208506Z

What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.

References
Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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