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Wiz Research discovered multiple severe memory safety vulnerabilities in the PHP core that underpins about 70% of websites worldwide, classified under two identifiers CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, with a highest CVSS score of 9.2, and nearly all PHP versions including 5.4 are affected by at least one of them. PHP released patches on October 21, 2026. Wiz combined the vulnerabilities into the php2shell attack chain and demonstrated unauthenticated attacks on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Wiz also published the PHP2Shell urgent threat brief, explaining the vulnerability discovery and responsible disclosure process, how AI-driven security research found them, and mitigation options for systems that cannot be patched immediately.

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    PHP2Shell: Wiz uses AI to find a severe RCE vulnerability affecting 70% of websites on the internet

    Wiz Research found multiple severe memory safety vulnerabilities in the PHP core that underpins 70% of the world's websites, and PHP released patches on October 21, 2026. The vulnerabilities are classified into two CVEs (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), with a maximum CVSS of 9.2, and almost all PHP versions, including 5.4, are affected by at least one of them. Wiz combined the vulnerabilities into the php2shell attack chain and demonstrated unauthenticated remote code execution on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, as well as the ability to read sensitive data such as passwords and tokens in process memory, with exploitation not depending on flaws in application code. These defects have existed for more than a decade, and the exploitation threshold was previously close to the limit of human researchers; the authors said that with Wiz Atlas, Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, one researcher completed in a week work that previously took top teams months.

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    PHP2Shell emergency threat brief: Wiz Research analyzes PHP unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities

    Wiz Research released an emergency threat brief on PHP2Shell, explaining two critical PHP vulnerabilities it discovered and responsibly disclosed that can lead to unauthenticated RCE. The vulnerabilities affect widely used PHP versions (including older versions that no longer receive patches) and could affect WordPress, Drupal and MediaWiki. The brief also covers the discovery process of AI-driven security research and mitigation options for systems that cannot be patched immediately.

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