CVE-2022-44877
9.8, critical Known exploitedCWP Control Web Panel OS Command Injection Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 100% higher than 99.9% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 5 Jan 20233 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 17 Jan 2023. US federal agencies had to remediate by 7 Feb 2023, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
login/index.php in CWP (aka Control Web Panel or CentOS Web Panel) 7 before 0.9.8.1147 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in the login parameter.
Details
- Vendor
- CWP
- Product
- Webpanel
- Weakness
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 7
Exploit code 6
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/170388/Control-Web-Panel-7-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/170820/Control-Web-Panel-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com /files/171725/Control-Web-Panel-7-CWP7-0.9.8.1147-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/1 (opens in a new tab)
- gist.github.com /numanturle/c1e82c47f4cba24cff214e904c227386 (opens in a new tab)
- youtube.com /watch?v=kiLfSvc1SYY (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other CWP CVEs
Every CWP CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2025-48703 CWP Control Web Panel OS Command Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 100% 9, critical
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 16 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.