{"id":281,"date":"2026-10-29T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:33:14","slug":"php2shell-research-demonstrated-core-php-flaws-with-ai-used-for-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/php2shell-research-demonstrated-core-php-flaws-with-ai-used-for-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP2Shell research demonstrated core PHP flaws, with AI used for discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wiz disclosed PHP2Shell, a group of memory-safety findings in core PHP tracked under CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The research demonstrated memory disclosure and code-execution paths, including examples against popular content-management systems.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say PHP released coordinated fixes on October 21, 2026. Exploit conditions vary across the underlying bugs; PHP\u2019s large market share should not be presented as a measured count of compromised websites.<\/p>\n<p>Operators should apply the security update for their supported PHP branch and verify the runtime used by deployed applications. AI models helped discover and analyze the flaws; that role does not make those models or their vendors affected PHP products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiz.io\/blog\/php2shell-php-rce\">Read the original source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The affected technology is PHP; the models that helped researchers investigate it are discovery tools, not affected products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bugskan_incident_id":"inc_975b2eaa25b59c","bugskan_event_type":"vulnerability","bugskan_response":"REVIEW","bugskan_technical_severity":"","bugskan_technical_severity_source":"","bugskan_evidence_quality":"high","bugskan_affected_scope":"The affected core PHP versions and paths described in the PHP2Shell disclosure.","bugskan_recommended_next_step":"Apply the security update for your supported PHP branch and verify deployed runtimes.","bugskan_who_should_check":"","bugskan_material_updated_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z","bugskan_reviewer_name":"","bugskan_reviewed_at":"","bugskan_legacy_state":"mapped","bugskan_featured":false,"bugskan_sample":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"bugskan_format":[2],"bugskan_technology":[61],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bugskan_format-security-brief","bugskan_technology-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"bugskan_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bugskan_format?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"bugskan_technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bugskan_technology?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}