PHP warns of emergency updates for two critical flaws rated up to CVSS 10.0
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Paige Bailey, associated with Google and Gemini, posts on X that an unspecified coming issue will be "real bad" for the cPanel-era internet, without giving details.
A linked BleepingComputer report says PHP is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates to fix two critical flaws rated CVSS 9.2. watchTowr rates the flaws CVSS 10.0 and describes remote code execution affecting PHP 5 through 8. The report does not identify the affected PHP versions beyond that range or name the patched releases.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 20, 9:40 PM ET
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👩💻 Paige Bailey@DynamicWebPaigeXPaige Bailey warns that PHP flaws will be bad for cPanel-era hostingAIPaige Bailey, who is associated with Google and Gemini, says a coming issue will be "real bad" for the cPanel-era internet. The post gives no details about the issue, but a linked BleepingComputer report says PHP is warning admins to prepare for emergency security updates to fix two critical flaws rated CVSS 9.2, while watchTowr rates them CVSS 10.0 and describes remote code execution affecting PHP 5 through 8.
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