The set of vulnerabilities is dubbed PHP2Shell and disclosure is scheduled for 14:00 UTC with attacks expected to follow soon after.

It is adviced to take offline every non-vital services until the patch has been installed (or the Docker image has been updated with a patched version of PHP)

Update: fix is out https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    Plex Brand of media server package
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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