SB2026080551 - Code Injection in Hestia Control Panel
Published: August 5, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: N/A)
CWE-ID: CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code as root.
The vulnerability exists due to improper control of code generation in v-update-user-backup-exclusions and source_conf() when processing crafted backup exclusion input. A remote user can send a specially crafted POST request containing newline-separated KEY=VALUE data to execute arbitrary code as root.
No user interaction is required beyond submitting the save request.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.