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PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web

Global Published 22 October 2026, 20:12 · archived 22 Oct 2026

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt and 4Chan, which were temporarily shut down after the […]

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