#dev 2026-10-21

2026-10-21 UTC
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[schmarty]
big bad news for folks running PHP sites (pinging aaronpk because indieweb infra, too): https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php
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Loqi
[preview] [xd] Upcoming critical PHP security release
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[schmarty]
tl;dr - remote code execution affecting pretty much all default PHP installs, patch scheduled for tomorrow AM, but exploit already in the wild.
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[tantek]
shouldn't hosting providers already do that php.ini update / mitigation?
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aaronpk
apparently it's more than just the php.ini change (assuming you didn't need that feature in the first place)
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aaronpk
but yes i would expect hosting providers to do this for you on a shared hosting plan. but not on a VPS
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