Technology21 Oct 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued…

The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued by the PHP Foundation . PHP is a server-side programming language so widely used for web applications that it powers roughly 70% of the websites on the internet; by some accounts, that’s more than 33 million sites . It is also used by popular content management systems like WordPress. The NSA warned that these holes are so severe th…

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