56 results for “PHP”

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) has been exploited for over a week. A China-linked group chained it with the Fragnesia Linux kernel privilege escalation to root at least 25 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls with exposed management interfaces. Defiant had seen no confirmed WordPress compromise by 28 October 2026 despite 77,000 requests, and Cato and watchTowr report few successful attackers.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

A WordPress core race condition in the update process, patched in WordPress 7.1.4 on 28 October 2026, allows unauthenticated remote code execution with high attack complexity. New files unpack into a predictable, web-accessible staging directory. Defiant's Wordfence logged over 18,500 requests for staged setup-config.php paths in 21 hours, with no confirmed compromises. No CVE is assigned yet. The release fixes 22 flaws in total.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Rekt's "News or Hype?" compares four October 2026 AI headlines with their sources. These are Justin Drake's "bunker mode" ECDSA warning, Anthropic's Claude tracing NIST curve seeds to lrand48, OpenAI's agent spending Sepolia ETH from a default-mnemonic account, and Wiz's "AI uncovers" PHP RCE claim of 70% reach. It ends with four questions for checking claims.

rekt.newsarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Rekt News piece tracing three AI-security headlines back to their sources. It covers Justin Drake's October 2026 "bunker mode" warning about AI breaking ECDSA, OpenAI's report of a model spending Sepolia test ETH from a default developer mnemonic, and Wiz's "70% of the Internet" claim for PHP CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. It closes with four questions for checking a claim.

rekt.newsarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Explainer on "shell" vulnerabilities, the -Shell naming for RCE flaws that began with Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). It compares memory-corruption bugs (PHP2Shell, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619; Node2Shell, CVE-2026-111497, in the Brotli decoder) with design-flaw bugs (Log4Shell, React2Shell, CVE-2025-55182). It covers shared traits, exposure through inherited components, and Brotli patch status across runtimes and distributions.

aikido.devarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Cisco Talos Threat Source newsletter for the week of the PHP and Node.js vulnerability news cycle. It summarises NIK C2, a Go-based Windows implant that dumps credentials, streams keystrokes, deploys screen-locking ransomware and uses a victim's hijacked OpenAI API keys to analyse stolen data. It also lists weekly headlines (CISA KEV PHP bugs, Brotli flaw, Gheist GitHub token theft), Talos links and top malware hashes.

blog.talosintelligence.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300) is a Linux kernel XFRM ESP-in-TCP logic bug in the Dirty Frag class that gives local attackers root, with a public PoC. CISA added it to the KEV catalog and ordered federal patching under BOD 26-04. Attackers chain it with PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) to implant PHP webshells. Dream Security tied the chain to 25 rooted servers in the US, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

bleepingcomputer.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

SecurityWeek roundup of patches from Adobe, Veeam and Juniper Networks covering over three dozen vulnerabilities. Adobe fixed 12 flaws (eight critical in Campaign Classic), Veeam fixed nine (including a cross-tenant RCE in Backup for Microsoft 365), and Juniper fixed 18 in Session Smart Router and Conductor. None were reported exploited. Juniper said CVE-2026-109618 (PHP2Shell) affects Junos OS but is not exploitable there.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Aikido's analysis of the PHP2Shell disclosures (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), published October 2026. It covers the timeline: the CVE IDs leaked on 20 October, PHP moved its release to 21 October, and Amazon reports exploitation attempts from 17 October. It cites Censys data (32.5 million services still affected on 27 October) and argues that AI-driven discovery and exploit building call for shorter embargoes and faster patching.

aikido.devarticleAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

A China-linked actor chained PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) with the Fragnesia Linux kernel privilege escalation (CVE-2026-46300) to root firewalls and drop PHP webshells, per Dream. Using FOFA, the actor narrowed 19,000 firewalls to 240 targets and rooted 24 on 23-24 October. On two US government-affiliated devices it used a reverse SSH tunnel, hit the firewall management server, and attempted LDAP and Active Directory abuse.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Akamai SIG argues that vendors and researchers broke embargo norms during the October 2026 PHP2Shell leak, when the PHP fix shipped a day early on 21 October. It explains the four TLP 2.0 labels, tabulates past embargo breaks (Heartbleed, a collapsed six-month kernel-era embargo, the Alibaba Cloud and MIIT case), and lists seven practices, such as no proofs of concept or CVE numbers before the fix.

akamai.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Wiz Research follow-up on PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) after the 21 October 2026 disclosure. Honeypot data shows two variants of an open source exploit kit, one stopped by post_max_size and the other by failed memory leaks and worker pinning, plus PHP2Shell-branded tools that rely on session poisoning and LFI. Daily exposed vulnerable machines fell about 67%.

wiz.ioarticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag challenge is a HackerOne bug bounty CTF. Researchers must bypass Cloudflare WAF rules protecting CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (PHP2Shell) on stock PHP 8.5.11 with Apache mod_php in a Cloudflare Container, get RCE, and read /flag. The post lists scope (POST to /php/* only), report requirements and duplicate rules, which count only materially distinct WAF bypasses.

blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Aikido Images are free patched PHP container images on public ECR (public.ecr.aws/aikido-dev/php) that backport the PHP2Shell fixes for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 into release lines 5.5 to 8.5, except 8.0. Upstream fixed 8.2 to 8.5 in October 2026 and left 8.1 and older unpatched. The post shows docker pull and Dockerfile FROM changes, then rebuild, restart, session.upload_progress.enabled=0 and compromise checks.

aikido.devarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) are critical unauthenticated RCE flaws in the PHP engine, patched on 21 October 2026 in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. Industrial vendors including Schneider Electric, Siemens, ABB, B&R, Johnson Controls, Belden, HMS Networks and Wibu-Systems have confirmed affected OT products, with fixed versions or mitigations listed. Rockwell Automation and Hitachi Energy were still assessing, and Moxa reported no impact.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PHP2Shell exploitation (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) reached working shells on 24 October 2026, when Perplexity researcher Adel Karimi's honeypots (PHP 8.4.26, Apache mod_php, single worker) logged 35 shells across three servers. Attackers used a four-stage HTTP chain: memory exhaustion, memory leak, then shell command execution, matching a public PoC. No second-stage payload was seen, and CISA had not added the flaws to KEV as of 26 October.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Code security for new coders is a Datadog Security Labs primer for vibe coders on first-party versus third-party code, hardcoded secrets and software supply chain risk (vulnerable and malicious dependencies). It lists security questions to put to a coding agent before and after code is written. It also defines SCA, SAST, IAST, DAST, IaC scanning and secret scanning, and cites the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities.

securitylabs.datadoghq.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Galaxy Research's weekly brief includes a section on PHP2Shell, two decade-old PHP remote code execution bugs affecting versions back to 5.4, patched in an emergency release. It reports an Amazon honeypot exploit attempt four days before disclosure, thousands of attempts in the 10 hours before the patch per Cloudflare's Matthew Prince, and NSA and FBI offline advice. The author argues the bugs were found with GPT-5.6 Sol and that defence must become agentic. It also lists the week's other incidents, including a CVSS 10.0 GitLab bug and eMudhra's guessable private keys.

galaxy.comarticleAdded 24 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Endor Labs roundup of the 20 to 21 October 2026 patch wave: eMudhra certificate authority keys that anyone can recover, PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497) and malware in LiteLLM 1.107.0. It lists fixed versions (PHP 8.2.35 to 8.5.12, Node.js 22.23.4, 24.22.1, 26.12.1, LiteLLM back to 1.106.2) and explains why many separate trust-store copies each need updating. It closes with advice on triage, remediation and SBOM/VEX reporting.

endorlabs.comarticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PHP2Shell is the name for two unauthenticated remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS v4 9.2), in the PHP engine back to version 5.4. The post covers the leaked October 2026 embargo, AI-assisted exploit building by Calif and others, patch availability by PHP version, and a 72-hour and quarterly response plan covering inventory, patching, secret rotation and edge virtual patching. It ends with a short Orca product section.

orca.securityarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, CVSS v4.0 9.2) are unauthenticated RCE bugs in PHP, patched on 21 October 2026. Sophos, Arctic Wolf and Hunt.io tie exploitation attempts to the Potassium Mirai variant, and VulnCheck built an ASLR-bypassing exploit. SOCRadar and Hunt.io found an exposed attacker server, and Qualys data shows about 110 million instances on end-of-life PHP. No confirmed compromise exists.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AINews issue for 21-22 October 2026, built from 12 subreddits and 544 Twitter accounts. It leads with "Black October", a 48-hour run of AI-found vulnerability disclosures (PHP2Shell, a GitLab CVSS 10 flaw, a LiteLLM 1.107.0 password stealer, eMudhra CA keys). It also covers MiniMax M3.1 Flash, Carbon-X and Flint releases, Artificial Analysis coding-agent and CritPt v2 results, and a METR/Redwood audit of OpenAI monitoring.

latent.spacearticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Quest Diagnostics disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that an unauthorized party accessed its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where clients order tests and look up results. The company found the breach on Wednesday and notified federal law enforcement. The number of patients and records affected is unknown, and Quest said the breach is not related to the PHP vulnerabilities disclosed that week.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Horizon3.ai post on assessing exposure to PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), two memory-handling flaws in PHP. It says affected PHP may be bundled in third-party products, containers or managed hosting, and that finding it shows a remediation need, not proven exploitability. It lists questions to ask hosting providers and says Horizon3.ai has validated exploitation under specific preconditions that are still being characterized.

horizon3.aiarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

tl;dr sec #351 is a weekly security newsletter. Clint Gibler describes working with OpenAI, Calif, Wiz and the PHP maintainers on the PHP2Shell unauthenticated RCE disclosure, which affects 13 years of PHP. It also covers Datadog's pathrunner AWS IAM escalation framework, Trail of Bits' patching-bugs and regression-hunt Codex plugins, XBOW finding de-duplication, backdoored open-weight models, and CREBench.

tldrsec.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

SecurityWeek roundup of responses to PHP2Shell, two critical unauthenticated RCE flaws (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) fixed in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on 21 October 2026. It covers the exploitation timeline (first attempt 17 October), vendor exposure checks, Red Hat's lower 8.1 score against NVD's 9.8, detections from Cisco Talos, CrowdStrike and Corelight, and government alerts.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) is a pair of critical PHP remote code execution flaws. Amazon saw the first exploitation on 17 October 2026, four days before patches on 21 October, and Cloudflare logged millions of attempts after disclosure. Censys, VulnCheck and VirusTotal counted over 1 million unpatched PHP hosts, and CISA urged updating to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AINews issue for 20-21 October 2026. The top story covers PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs found separately by Calif researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet and by Wiz, followed by two months of coordinated remediation. It also covers the Flint coding MoE, DeepSeek's DeepInfer, TorchTPU, eval critiques and agent product launches. The text is truncated.

latent.spacearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

This AINews issue (20 to 21 October 2026) leads with PHP2Shell, two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Calif researchers found them with GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet, and Wiz reportedly found them independently with Gemini 4 Argon. It reconstructs the two-month coordinated response, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance, and the dispute over vetted researcher access to models. Only the first 40,000 of 114,281 characters were reviewed.

latent.spacearticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

AINews issue of 20-21 October 2026 whose top story reconstructs PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs with reported pre-auth RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. It covers the two-month coordinated disclosure, independent discovery by Calif/OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol) and Wiz, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance. It flags missing primary sources: fixed versions, CVSS and leak details.

latent.spacearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security