cPanel Zero-Day CVE-2026-41940: Active Exploitation Timeline, Patching Guidance, and Incident Response Playbook
A critical authentication bypass in cPanel (CVE-2026-41940, CVSS 9.8) has been exploited in the wild for weeks, granting attackers full control over hosting servers and the websites they manage. Despite the absence of public proof-of-concept code early on, threat actors moved quickly—scanning at scale, testing exploits, and escalating to coordinated campaigns soon after limited details…