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ثغرتان خطيرتان في «PHP» تهددان ملايين المواقع على الإنترنت - أخبار السعودية | صحيفة عكاظ
Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261024T133450Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). Okaz (Arabic, Saudi Arabia), 24 October, a general explainer. It says, citing the Associated Press, that the two flaws, which AI helped to find the ri...
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ثغرتان خطيرتان في «PHP» تهددان ملايين المواقع على الإنترنت - أخبار السعودية | صحيفة عكاظ
Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln, read from its pack copy 7r83qic5), page sa/news/okaz/technology-na-2272170, 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._
Okaz (Arabic, Saudi Arabia), 24 October, a general explainer. It says, citing the Associated Press, that the two flaws, which AI helped to find the risks of, caused disruptions to some government websites and services in the UK, Finland and Japan; that the FBI warned of remote code execution; that PHP's fixes shipped on 21 October (8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, 8.5.12) and ENISA urged organisations to inventory PHP systems and prioritise internet-facing servers. It also says early signs of one of the problems had been known since 2024 and that the PHP project acknowledged the delay in handling it reflects a weakness in how security reports are processed and prioritised; no source is named for that last statement.
> وتسببت الثغرتان، اللتان ساعد الذكاء الاصطناعي في اكتشاف مخاطرهما، في اضطرابات طالت بعض المواقع والخدمات الحكومية في بريطانيا وفنلندا واليابان، بالتزامن مع إجراءات عاجلة لتثبيت التحديثات الأمنية ووفقاً لوكالة «أسوشيتد برس».
_Curator's translation:_ "The two flaws, whose risks AI helped to uncover, caused disruption to some government sites and services in the UK, Finland and Japan, alongside urgent patching, according to the Associated Press."
Why it is here
From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "ثغرتان خطيرتان في «PHP» تهددان ملايين المواقع على الإنترنت - أخبار السعودية | صحيفة عكاظ". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.
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The bytes
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