🛡️ Security

Hosting Control Panel

A web application such as cPanel & WHM, Plesk, or DirectAdmin that manages a hosting server's accounts, websites, mail, and databases. It runs with root privileges and loads third-party plugins, so a flaw in the panel or a plugin can expose every customer on the server.

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How to Harden a Shared Hosting Server Against Local Privilege Escalation

On a multi-tenant host the attacker is already logged in. Seven steps to keep a compromised customer account from becoming a compromised server: inventory, restricted shells, audits, detection.

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