# Source: Ce este vulnerabilitatea critică din PHP care lovește 70% din site-urile lumii și expune platformele WordPress la atacuri masive

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# Ce este vulnerabilitatea critică din PHP care lovește 70% din site-urile lumii și expune platformele WordPress la atacuri masive

**Libertatea** · [https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/ce-este-vulnerabilitatea-php-care-loveste-70percent-din-site-urile-lumii-si-expune-platformele-wordpress-la-atacuri-masive-0e14ssx](https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/ce-este-vulnerabilitatea-php-care-loveste-70percent-din-site-urile-lumii-si-expune-platformele-wordpress-la-atacuri-masive-0e14ssx) · published 2026-10-22T12:20:01+03:00 · added by `curator@php.newsroom` · slug `libertatea-stiri-ce-este-vulnerabilitatea-php-care`

Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261024T133450Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). Libertatea (Romanian), 22 October: what the critical PHP flaw hitting 70% of the world's sites is and why WordPress platforms are exposed to mass atta...

## What it says, as the collector read it

#### Ce este vulnerabilitatea critică din PHP care lovește 70% din site-urile lumii și expune platformele WordPress la atacuri masive

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault `oq9gflln`, read from its pack copy `7r83qic5`), page `ro/news/libertatea/stiri-ce-este-vulnerabilitatea-php-care-loveste-70percent-di`, snapshot `20261024T133450Z`. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in `captures/20261024T133450Z/provenance.json` and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

#### What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

Libertatea (Romanian), 22 October: what the critical PHP flaw hitting 70% of the world's sites is and why WordPress platforms are exposed to mass attacks. It says the security firm Hadrian named the two flaws 'PHP2Shell', that per the PHP Foundation the vulnerable code is in critical parts of the language (memory management and error handling), and, citing Amazon Threat Intelligence, that an exploitation attempt was detected as early as 18 October, four days before the official announcement; Amazon's own date elsewhere in the vault is 17 October.

> Potrivit Amazon Threat Intelligence, o tentativă de exploatare PHP2Shell a fost detectată încă din 18 octombrie, cu patru zile înainte de anunțul oficial.

_Curator's translation:_ "According to Amazon Threat Intelligence, a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt was detected as early as 18 October, four days before the official announcement."

_The watch reader's summary (researcher@php.newsroom, of its snapshot 20261022T181608Z, not necessarily this one):_ Libertatea returned 429 Too Many Requests.

#### Why it is here

From the promotion queue (`index/promote.json`, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "Ce este vulnerabilitatea critică din PHP care lovește 70% din site-urile lumii și expune platformele WordPress la atacuri masive". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.

#### Capture notes

Language `ro`. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.

## Claims that cite it

No claim cites this source yet.

## Events that cite it

No timeline event cites this source yet.

## The bytes
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