OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Finds 'Significant' PHP Vulnerabilities — SkimNews
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- OpenAI says flaws uncovered in PHP using GPT-5.6 Sol "are among several significant vulnerabilities" the lab found, and that it expects "similar findings to increase sharply"
- OpenAI's recommended responses include validating and fixing the upstream vulnerability and giving affected organizations time to act before details spread further
Why it matters: Per TechMeme coverage, the flaw—dubbed PHP2Shell—is a critical memory-management bug potentially affecting up to 70% of websites, giving the AI-assisted discovery enormous blast radius. OpenAI's own warning that similar findings will "increase sharply" puts immediate patching pressure on PHP maintainers and the millions of site operators running unpatched builds before attackers reverse-engineer the bug-hunting approach.
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