‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

The PHP Foundation detailed the two critical vulnerabilities—CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619—which impact “all PHP installations serving web requests” going back to PHP version 5, released in July 2004. However, only PHP 8.2 and newer are still supported and will receive patches, according to the alert. The PHP Foundation noted, though, that some PHP distributions and third-party vendors still produce legacy fixes. The caveat is significant, because ubiquitous and foundational web layers like PHP can persist forgotten and un-updated in historic internet…