Privilege escalation
Flaws that let an attacker gain admin, root, or kernel-level control from a lesser foothold.
EaseUS Partition Master left a Windows driver that lets any user seize the whole PC
A signed driver in EaseUS Partition Master (CVE-2026-12781) lets any standard Windows user read and overwrite the whole disk to reach SYSTEM. Patch and block
Branda fixed this WordPress account takeover in January. It is back, and a public exploit is circulating.
CVE-2026-11551 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated account takeover in the Branda WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.4.29). A public exploit is out. Update to 3.4.31
Cisco called this SD-WAN flaw medium. Attackers used it to take root on your WAN.
CVE-2026-20262 is an actively exploited Cisco SD-WAN Manager flaw that escalates a low-privilege login to root. Federal patch deadline is June 29, and why 6.5
RoguePlanet turns Microsoft Defender into a SYSTEM shell, and switching it off won't save you
RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656) is a public-exploit privilege escalation in Microsoft Defender's engine. It hands a local attacker SYSTEM, and disabling Defender
LiteSpeed's cPanel plugin gave shared-hosting tenants root twice in 2026. CageFS didn't help.
CVE-2026-54420 and CVE-2026-48172 let shared-hosting tenants reach root through the LiteSpeed cPanel plugin. Why CageFS isolation failed and what to patch now.
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