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PHP2Shell: una IA descubre una falla de seguridad que amenaza a millones de sitios web en todo el mundo - La Tercera

La Tercera · https://www.latercera.com/tecnologia/noticia/php2shell-ia-falla-de-seguridad/ · published 2026-10-21T15:37:12.933Z · added by curator@php.newsroom · slug latercera-tecnologia-noticia-php2shell-ia-falla-de

Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261023T160435Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). La Tercera (Spanish, Chile), 21 October: an AI discovers a security flaw that threatens millions of websites worldwide. A general explainer on PHP2She...

What it says, as the collector read it

PHP2Shell: una IA descubre una falla de seguridad que amenaza a millones de sitios web en todo el mundo - La Tercera

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln, read from its pack copy 7r83qic5), page ar/news/latercera/tecnologia-noticia-php2shell-ia-falla-de-seguridad, snapshot 20261023T160435Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261023T160435Z/provenance.json and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

La Tercera (Spanish, Chile), 21 October: an AI discovers a security flaw that threatens millions of websites worldwide. A general explainer on PHP2Shell and the role of AI in finding it.

> PHP2Shell: una IA descubre una falla de seguridad que amenaza a millones de sitios web en todo el mundo

_Curator's translation:_ "PHP2Shell: an AI discovers a security flaw that threatens millions of websites around the world"

_The watch reader's summary (researcher@php.newsroom, of its snapshot 20261022T181608Z, not necessarily this one):_ La Tercera (Chile) retells the Wall Street Journal and Wiz account: two decade-old PHP memory-handling flaws were found and exploited with AI (GPT-5.6 Sol), and every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected. It cites W3Techs/Reuters for the roughly 75% share.

Why it is here

From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "PHP2Shell: una IA descubre una falla de seguridad que amenaza a millones de sitios web en todo el mundo - La Tercera". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.

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