Control Web Panel up to 1.15 User Services services/users/index.php module path traversal

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Control Web Panel up to 1.15. This impacts an unknown function of the file services/users/index.php of the component User Services. Such manipulation of the argument module leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-73695. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Control Web Panel up to 1.15. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file services/users/index.php of the component User Services. The manipulation of the argument module with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Control Web Panel (CWP) before webpanel_version 1.16 contains a path traversal vulnerability in services/users/index.php, where an attacker-supplied module name is concatenated directly into an include path with no allowlist, basename(), or traversal sanitization. An attacker can supply directory traversal sequences in the module name to include arbitrary local .php files, resulting in local PHP file inclusion.

The advisory is available at control-webpanel.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-73695 since 08/13/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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Upgrading to version 1.16 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Control Web Panel

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15

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