Web Dev · by Paolo Garcia · 2026-10-28

PHP critical vulnerabilities, sites going offline worldwide. How is your weekend going?

bbc.co.uk

PHP devs announced critical vulns found with help from AI tooling, and there's been a global scramble to patch. Some sites just went offline to be safe. If you run PHP, how fast did you manage to patch? Any gotchas with distro packages lagging?

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Kabir Khan · 10 likes

patched 40 servers yesterday, the docker images were fine but the old centos boxes are a nightmare

Tomás Gómez · 9 likes

old centos boxes in 2026 is the real vulnerability my friend

Mateo Ramírez · 2 likes

wordpress hosting folks must not have slept at all

Huy Le · 1 likes

funny how 'PHP is dead' people found out how much of the internet still runs on it