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PSA: PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently (today 14:00 UTC) (arstechnica.com)
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The set of vulnerabilities is dubbed PHP2Shell and disclosure is scheduled for 14:00 UTC with attacks expected to follow soon after.

It is adviced to take offline every non-vital services until the patch has been installed (or the Docker image has been updated with a patched version of PHP)

Update: fix is out https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5

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[–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Seriously though, how quickly do you expect patches to be available for WordPress? I've got one WordPress site that I made years ago for a friend's business. I pop in on it and update stuff every few months.

Should I take it down?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    it's PHP that needs the patches. Yes you should take the site down until PHP has been patched.

    edit: assuming you are hosting wordpress yourself. if you're using a large 3rd party service that manages PHP itself like wordpress themselves, one should hope that they will be updating PHP early, before the patch is even released publicly.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Should I take it down?

    depends. do you want to deal with a simple patch in 24 hours or do you want to rebuild an entire legacy system from nothing (assuming you don't take proper backups)?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    How dare you (correctly) assume I haven't taken proper backups!

    Jk lol

    I do have a couple backups I made a few months ago. Never tested restoring them, so I don't count them as "real".

    I'm hosting on namecheap servers, using their cpanel and stuff. So I don't have the option of installing my own PHP version, just selecting theirs.

    But apparently they had some mitigations in place before updating, and then they got us updated.

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