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PHP Releases Emergency PHP2Shell Security Fixes
PHP plans to release patches for two critical vulnerabilities on Oct. 21 and urges administrators to update immediately. Researchers say the flaws are remote-code-execution bugs that may affect PHP versions 5 through 8, though PHP has not confirmed affected versions or released technical details.
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About PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. It was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Everything about PHP →- Inception
- June 8, 1995
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- https://www.php.net