PHP Foundation
PHP Foundation acknowledged a structural failure caused a delayed fix for a critical security flaw first identified in 2024. The foundation’s lack of a dedicated path to remote code execution and small core team stalled the response over months. Emergency patches for two related critical vulnerabilities were released, prompting government agencies and other organizations to temporarily take websites offline. Disruptions included the Netherlands’ digital identity service, Finland’s Valtori, France’s Interior Ministry, Germany’s ITZBund, Australia’s cyber.gov.au, Japan’s Prime Minister urging operators to patch, and Wikimedia’s Toolforge and Cloud VPS. The foundation is working to resolve the issue and prevent similar delays.| PHP Foundation issued a patch for PHP OpenAI worked with PHP Foundation on patches Eric Wallace cooperated with PHP Foundation Wiz Research discovered the first PHP vulnerability using Wiz Atlas PHP Foundation maintains PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor PHP Foundation warned about php2shell PHP Foundation identified signs of CVE-2026-109618 PHP Foundation scheduled a release for PHP vulnerabilities PHP Foundation scheduled its release at 14:00 UTC on 2026-10-21· Entity summary generated by Graphiti
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BY VALID-FROM DATE- PHP FoundationMAINTAINSPHP
PHP Foundation maintains PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- TechRadarCOOPERATED WITHPHP Foundation
Eric Wallace cooperated with PHP Foundation
- PHP FoundationISSUED PATCH FORPHP
PHP Foundation issued a patch for PHP
- OpenAIWORKED WITHPHP Foundation
OpenAI worked with PHP Foundation on patches
- PHP FoundationSCHEDULED RELEASE FORPHP
PHP Foundation scheduled a release for PHP vulnerabilities
- PHP FoundationSCHEDULED RELEASE ATPHP
PHP Foundation scheduled its release at 14:00 UTC on 2026-10-21
- PHP FoundationIDENTIFIED SIGN OFCVE-2026-109618
PHP Foundation identified signs of CVE-2026-109618
- Wiz ResearchDISCOVERED VULNERABILITY USINGPHP Foundation
Wiz Research discovered the first PHP vulnerability using Wiz Atlas
- PHP FoundationWARNED ABOUTPHP2Shell
PHP Foundation warned about php2shell
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Events 4
- Is the Internet Safe Again After the PHP Nightmare? What You Need to Know1 cited report · 2026-10-23
- Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found1 cited report · 2026-10-23
- [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months3 cited reports · 2026-10-22
- PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet1 cited report · 2026-10-22
Source reports 6
- Is the Internet Safe Again After the PHP Nightmare? What You Need to KnowDecrypt · 2026-10-23
- Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw foundBBC World · 2026-10-23
- [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 monthsLatent Space · 2026-10-22
- Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP SecuritySimon Willison · 2026-10-22
- PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internetTechCrunch · AI · 2026-10-22
- Why the EU Is Telling Some Websites to Switch Themselves OffBeInCrypto · 2026-10-21