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@breakintoprogram.co.uk

On the bright side, I suppose this'll mean hackers will be concentrating on vulnerabilities in PHP rather than WordPress.

L Break Into Program@breakintoprogram.co.uk

In light of this, I'll be taking my websites down until my provider has patched PHP. Hold please caller.

ncsc.gov.ukCritical security issue affecting PHPUpdated: The NCSC is encouraging UK organisations to take immediate action to mitigate a security issue affecting PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619).

gazsp

@gazsp.bsky.social

But... WordPress is built with PHP?

gazsp

@gazsp.bsky.social

There's no brightside. I spent 10 hours patching and updating servers yesterday. WordPress is doubly insecure as the code is awful + it runs on PHP...

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

This is the downside of the LLM revolution I guess. A constant barrage of zero-day exploits that affect swathes of the Internet. It was bad enough before.

gazsp

@gazsp.bsky.social

Yeah, agreed. Not looking forward to this becoming the new normal honestly...

L Break Into Program

@breakintoprogram.co.uk

Me neither. Sigh.

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