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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[–] 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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