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Cpanel is Perl, not PHP. Probably the grayest of the gray beards. Perhaps not enough Perl Wizards left to maintain it nowadays.


well, any accounts running outdated workloads (could be anything LAMP-flavored) could be attack vectors, with the entire shared machine possibly compromised by any weak account due to these latest LPEs

these cPanel machines frequently run 4- or low-5-figure quantities of customer accounts, each with potentially multiple domains or CMS deployments, and not always the most technically-engaged customer base, so that's a lot of surface area to account for: how diligent can hosts realistically be about every WordPress plugin, every Drupal or Magento module, and so on?

(nb I don't like shared hosting and am not defending it, just addressing the reality of the long tail)




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