🇿🇦 English, 22 October 2026, PHP vulnerabilities
Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosure
Cloudflare saw millions of attempts to exploit PHP vulnerabilities after public disclosure.
Cloud services firm Cloudflare saw millions of exploitation attempts after the public disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language PHP.
Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of vulnerabilities in PHP sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems.
Developers of the PHP programming language released urgent new fixes to vulnerabilities that had been lurking in their software for years until they were uncovered using AI.