NSA warns of critical PHP flaws; patches released after AI discovery

NSA warns of critical PHP flaws; patches released after AI discovery

The U. S. National Security Agency warned on October 21 that two severe PHP vulnerabilities dating back to 2004 had been discovered with the assistance of artificial-intelligence tools, and that emergency patches had already been released.

The PHP Foundation had earlier scheduled and then issued emergency updates for all supported PHP versions, including,, and, to fix the remote code execution flaws identified as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The patches were prepared after details of the flaws were leaked ahead of the planned public disclosure.

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The claim that the PHP development team planned to release emergency security updates on October 21, 2026 to fix two high-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities was partially confirmed.

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