Executive Summary
OverviewOn April 28, 2026, cPanel issued a security update to fix a critical vulnerability affecting the cPanel & WHM and WP Squared products. In the cPanel release notes, the bug was described as "an issue with session loading and saving." CVE-2026-41940, the identifier subsequently assigned on April 29, 2026, has a CVSS score of 9.8 and allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized administrative access to the affected systems. First-party cPanel & WHM
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