Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-44962

CriticalUpdated

Published: 29 May 2026

Published
29 May 2026
Modified
17 June 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0069 48.1th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-44962 is a critical-severity XPath Injection (CWE-643) vulnerability in Plesk (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 48.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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in local privilege escalation.

CWE(s)
CWE-643

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

XPath injection directly abused for OS command execution resulting in local privilege escalation from low-privileged account.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Plesk
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References