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Oct 21, 2026

Critical PHP vulnerabilities prompt emergency patches affecting up to 70% of websites

Developers issued emergency security updates for PHP after researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol discovered critical vulnerabilities that could affect as much as 70% of the world's websites. Multiple governments took sites offline as a precaution.

Oct 21, 2026·4 sources
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  • ▪The two PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, carry a severity rating of 9.2 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System
  • ▪The critical PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or read sensitive server process memory, including passwords, API keys, and certificates
  • ▪The PHP Foundation released emergency security updates on October 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM ET to address two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

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