On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity researchers using a frontier model from OpenAI. If they exploited it, attackers could gain full control of servers, stealing or copying anything inside or simply taking sites offline.
I mean, the national cybersecurity council here saw exploits happening in the wild. So it’s definitely possible and practical enough for it to happen.
Hi, can you please provide some sources for this? I can’t seems to find anything official. Thanks
https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/23/dutch-cybersecurity-center-investigating-first-signs-hackers-abused-php-issues
Official source this is based on is https://www.ncsc.nl/en/alerts/update-php-vulnerabilities-remain-a-reason-for-immediate-patching, which mentions they’re investigating signs of exploits and that they have at least one confirmed exploit that happened abroad.
It’s still a complex exploit, mind, but not an unusable one.
more references to exploits in the wild.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-threat-intelligence-identifies-php2shell-exploitation-prior-to-public-disclosure-in-madpot/