A severe vulnerability has been found in key web technology PHP, forcing just about everybody to patch websites, and fast. Expect outages.
Websites may go down for a few days because of a nasty PHP vulnerability.
Over the next couple of days, there will be more complaints about websites being down than usual. It’s not just you, but the effects of the Internet relying on PHP and something going horrifically wrong.
The developers behind PHP, a web programming language, have said they will release a patch on Wednesday to fix a pair of vulnerabilities. They are rated at a very high 9.2 severity on the CVSSv4.0 severity scale.