The path to happiness and posterity runs through PHP. Here is some of the research dealing with that today - so far.
KrebsonSecurity: Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/widespread-php-flaw-may-cause-many-site-outages-today/ @briankrebs
Akamai: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in PHP Core https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/critical-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities-php-core
Cisco: Parasitizing trust: How legitimate infrastructure becomes a delivery pipeline for attackers https://blog.talosintelligence.com/parasitizing-trust-how-legitimate-infrastructure-becomes-a-delivery-pipeline-for-attackers/ @TalosSecurity
CrowdStrike: Two critical memory-corruption RCE vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 have been disclosed in core PHP https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-protects-customers-from-php-rce-zero-days/
Kaspersky: Critical RCE vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) https://securelist.com/tr/php2shell-critical-vulnerabilities-in-php/121596/ @Kaspersky
Sophos: Proof-of-concept exploit released for PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/proof-of-concept-exploit-released-for-php-vulnerabilities-109618-109619 @SophosXOps
Palo Alto: Millions of PHP Instances Exposed - What Organizations Need To Do Right Now https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2026/10/millions-of-php-instances-exposed-what-organizations-need-to-do-right-now/
VulnCheck: PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/php2shell-vulnerabilities @vulncheck
Socket: PHP Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities, Organizations Urged to Take Unpatched Sites Offline https://socket.dev/blog/php-critical-rce-patches @SocketSecurity #vulnerability #threatresearch #infosec