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'We expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release': Web admins braced for emergency PHP updates to plug leaked high-severity holes | PC Gamer
Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261025T114552Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). PC Gamer (English), 21 October, by Andy Edser, written the morning of the release. It says the PHP security team gave advance notice of two critical f...
What it says, as the collector read it
'We expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release': Web admins braced for emergency PHP updates to plug leaked high-severity holes | PC Gamer
Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln, read from its pack copy 7r83qic5), page gb/tech-press/pcgamer/wikipedia-ref-22-dates-to-plug-leaked-high-severity-holes, snapshot 20261025T114552Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261025T114552Z/provenance.json and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.
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PC Gamer (English), 21 October, by Andy Edser, written the morning of the release. It says the PHP security team gave advance notice of two critical flaws each rated 9.2; that a video reportedly showing a tool called PHP2Shell executing code on web servers is circulating (via Ars Technica), so details seem to have leaked ahead of disclosure; that Sansec researchers say all web servers on PHP 5.4 or later are affected and expect mass attacks within 15 minutes of the release (due 14:00 UTC); that Cloudflare's CTO Dane Knecht said it was already updating firewall rules for early attacks, a stopgap only; and that watchTowr's CEO Benjamin Harris told BleepingComputer the two flaws had leaked from embargo and were 'CVSS10' and understood to affect PHP 5, 6, 7 and 8. Advice: inventory every PHP install, plan a maintenance window and back up.
> Researchers from cybersecurity firm Sansec say the vulnerabilities affect all web servers running PHP 5.4 or later, and that "we expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release."
Why it is here
From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "'We expect mass attacks to start within 15 minutes of the release': Web admins braced for emergency PHP updates to plug leaked high-severity holes | PC Gamer". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.
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The bytes
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