OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol helped find a critical PHP vulnerability that could affect 70% of websites
OpenAI says ChatGPT Sol helped uncover critical PHP flaws that could affect 70% of websites — AI-assisted researchers turned a two-year-old bug that stumped human developers into working exploits in t
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On October 21, OpenAI said researchers in its Patch the Planet cybersecurity project used GPT-5.6 Sol to discover a critical security vulnerability in PHP. PHP is an open-source programming language estimated to support about 70% of the internet. OpenAI said it then coordinated researchers, PHP maintainers, security vendors and government cybersecurity agencies to complete the fix in two months, and attributed the time required to the complexity of the task and the need for major changes to the PHP engine.
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