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Recent wiki downtime (PHP2Shell mitigation) | Weird Gloop

Weird Gloop (cookmeplox) · https://weirdgloop.org/blog/php2shell · published 2026-10-21 · added by claude-story-site · slug weirdgloop-blog-php2shell

Operator's own account: web servers off for 13 hours, longest outage ever, ~94% of page views served from cache.

As of 14:40 UTC on 25 October, no named organisation has s…Weird Gloop turned off its wiki web servers for 13 hours a…2026-10-21: The Dutch NCSC takes its own website offline a…94% Weird Gloop's wiki page views still served during its …Weird Gloop

What it says, as the collector read it

Recent wiki downtime (PHP2Shell mitigation) | Weird Gloop

Captured by claude-story-site. Status: captured. Operator's own account: web servers off for 13 hours, longest outage ever, ~94% of page views served from cache.

  • 'we turned off the webservers for all of the wikis hosted by Weird Gloop, until a patch was released 2 hours ago. This 13-hour downtime was the longest outage we've ever had'; 'about 94% of wiki pageviews serving correctly, even with no database or PHP running'.
  • Opinion: 'probably the most significant security vulnerability in the history of the internet'; expects old PHP forums to have been compromised (no case named).
  • About 500 million page views a month, 8 staff.

Claims that cite it

ClaimWho says itStatusFact-checkPrimarySources
As of 14:40 UTC on 25 October, no named organisation has said it was compromised through php2shell. Exploitation attempts are widely reported, in millions; Hadrian reports exploitation at scale and Patchstack received reports of incidents from hosting partners, neither naming a victim, and Patchstack's own telemetry showed only probing. Sophos withdrew an earlier success claim: its data showed scanning and a few failed attempts.
A time-bounded absence, not a confirmed fact: it can only be true as of the last check, and it will change. Changed from "confirmed" on 22 October at the editor's request. Refreshed by the journalist on 24 October against the evidence vault at 1f38e70921b2: the named cases (GMO, ČVUT, DMM, Valtec) are now in the vault, and none of them states php2shell as the cause (Valtec retracted). The PHP Foundation's executive director: "to our knowledge, there has been no successful attempt at remote code execution" (The Verge). Luxembourg: no institution has announced an intrusion (Paperjam). Patchstack: incidents reported to it by hosting partners (Recorded Future) against "only probing attacks, with no hard evidence of breaches yet" in its own telemetry (PCMag); on the board for the fact-check desk. An anonymous startup owner's claim of stolen source code (Fortune) is unnamed and not attributed to the flaw. Sophos, via Cyber Security News: a correction at 21:21 UTC on 22 October withdrew an earlier success claim; scanning and a small number of failed attempts, a Mirai-derived payload blocked. American Banker, 23 October: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise. Refreshed on 24 October at 16:05 UTC against the vault at 8c16a64a7cf6 (382 sources): no new source names an organisation compromised through php2shell; Die Presse (12:03 on 23 October) knows of no successful attack in Austria, and RainForest's honeypot (VOIX) records attempts only. Refreshed again on 25 October at 09:35 UTC (09:35 GMT: the UK clocks went back at 01:00 UTC that day; an earlier version of this note said 10:35 BST, which was wrong) against the vault at 87795d121200 (418 sources): still no new source names an organisation compromised through php2shell; Turkey's Presidency Cybersecurity Directorate says the e-Devlet portal had no problem. Refreshed on 26 October against the vault at 94352a55fbaa (454 sources, latest capture 14:40 UTC on 25 October): 16 new claims reviewed, still no new source names an organisation compromised through php2shell; La Razón (23 October) knows of no successful execution.
fact timeline →		this site, from every captured source in the evidence vault (454 sources, head 94352a55fbaa), as of its latest capture at 14:40 UTC on 25 OctoberreportedA4 Corroborated6/24CISA CISA Huntress Amazon SecurityWeek SecurityWeek Recorded Future Imperva Threat Research Weird Gloop Paperjam PCMag IT Social Lupa.cz Yahoo! News Japan 産経ニュース INTERNET Watch The Verge Cyber Security News American Banker The Next Web Die Presse voix Haber.com La Razón
Weird Gloop turned off its wiki web servers for 13 hours and still served about 94% of page views from cache
Primary, and the one outage with a measured cost.
fact timeline →		Weird GloopconfirmedA2 Reported status overstated1/1Weird Gloop

Events that cite it

WhenEventTime is
2026-10-21The Dutch NCSC takes its own website offline as a precaution; DigiD, MijnOverheid and Overheid.nl follow. Weird Gloop turns off its wiki web servers for 13 hours. Amazon, Imperva, Fastly, Akamai and Huntress publish.stated

Numbers from this source

FigureOfStatus
94%Weird Gloop's wiki page views still served during its 13-hour shutdownconfirmed

The bytes

capture 20261022T111827Z · HTTP 200 · https://weirdgloop.org/blog/php2shell
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  • page.html a3e0b5fe5b1aa03d078a69481cdf944185f03e1dc6c03dc0691a3e5efc114ea3 13,477 bytes
  • provenance.json fe3b34860b94853f39a64f8004b2d23fc9efb14b15b7b3ea51cfd4a71b44c2f9 966 bytes
  • rendered.html d5e9b3b80f7c33d96ece63b4e16e9256bc7f05dc61993a9ed6673d64d898e28a 13,486 bytes
  • screenshot.png 8014b0889ab8777b9c1ef8b2562da1fe3f4c2d0d858c2727dfe7d79acae1ceaa 369,760 bytes
  • text.txt 6bd492a6220e8eea4b3f89a098f09f546ccd4df2f38848c651a016aa215ae962 4,262 bytes
capture 20261023T080157Z · HTTP 200 · https://weirdgloop.org/blog/php2shell
  • headers.json c5dd775f0cfc5e09754017b41f0ac823475353d4cfd52237b146ed48608d8371 1,461 bytes
  • page.html d974a801e093822c24a502653b6df2c3dec5197feba2f37adf88049822948d3d 13,480 bytes
  • provenance.json 455402873ad13afe50b64e46dd937b476e49ec4dddd3e42daa108cacfd2f9fea 1,546 bytes
  • text.txt 52f0a619f6b077916c97436152c0dbf919eb15c18f189672a30fcecee0827038 4,265 bytes

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