PHP2Shell: AI-Found Bug Affects 70% of Sites — SkimNews
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- PHP disclosed a critical memory-management vulnerability dubbed "PHP2Shell" that could affect up to 70% of websites running the language.
- GPT-5.6 Sol identified the flaw in August via AI-assisted analysis, and the WSJ reporting describes it as one of the most severe online bugs ever found, prompting cyber experts to race toward a fix.
Why it matters: With up to 70% of websites running PHP, a critical flaw here threatens a massive single-stroke footprint across the web. That an AI tool uncovered it also demonstrates how AI-assisted discovery is now surfacing the highest-severity bugs, shifting the balance of who finds vulnerabilities first.
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