PHP is in the foundation of 70% of websites – here's what it is and why a flaw in the software is a major hacking threat

Governments and organizations around the world began scrambling on Oct. 21, 2026, to fix a vulnerability in software that ...
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Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation Attempts: Six Questions for Your IT Team Today

Two newly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in PHP could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on affected ...

Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw

Problem in PHP language that underpins 70% of websites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline while they patch fault ...
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PHP Has Powered the Web for Decades — Now It’s at the Center of a Major Security Crisis

PHP is a programming language tailored for web development, and it now supports nearly 70 percent of the world’s websites. We ...

Neat Statement – October 2026: Critical PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (PHP2Shell)

Note: This is a partially modified and supplemented translation of the original Neat support page document (Neat Statement – ...

Critical vulnerabilities in commonly used web code spark rush to update systems

Crucial vulnerabilities in the PHP language is so severe that global authorities have recommended websites temporarily go ...

PHP Exploded: The Day the Internet Pulled the Plug, Don't Trust 'Bug-Free' Code

A few days ago, a critical vulnerability in PHP threw the entire internet into chaos. Even high-ranking government officials ...
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PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code

In the latest software supply chain attack, the official PHP Git repository was hacked and the code base tampered with. Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository ...

What is PHP, and how did a flaw in its code lead several websites to go dark this week?

PHP is an open-source computer language that powers an estimated 70 per cent of the internet. While websites being taken ...