Leading a team building cutting edge WordPress websites.

United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
Unless you live under a stone, everybody will have heard about PHP today. Now, please realize that the vast majority of Open Source Software, like PHP, and including PHP, is largely maintained by **unpaid volunteers**.
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Tagging @ethicalhack3r @OliverSild @photomatt and @perezbox so you can loop in @GoDaddy if you still have contacts there. And looping in @gdb because he and @eastdakota are appearing together. Guys we haven't seen a single hacked WP site from #php2shell and we're (@wordfence is) protecting over 5 million PHP/WP sites. You know the deal. If it's exploitable, we all see site cleanings. No one in cybersecurity wants to minimize a vulnerability in case it does blow up. We're seeing reports from @Cloudflare and @eastdakota of attack attempts. We're seeing attack attempts in our telemetry. But we're not seeing a single compromised site. No one wants to say that it's not exploitable against vanilla PHP because it may turn out to be. I think we all know CVSS scores are imperfect. And the messaging here is off the charts. This has gone mainstream, but no one is talking about the fact that no one is seeing hacks. It's easy to take a bow and claim industry success, "go team cyber" and all that. But you know if these things are a legit risk you'll see compromised sites. Especially in the PHP/WP space where there are a lot of individual boxes out there with owners on vacation or MIA. And nothing. Not one. So I think the conversation that needs to happen is something like this: We're going to find scary vulnerabilities with the amazing capabilities that @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI are bringing online, but we need to calibrate the messaging to take into account how exploitable and scriptable each vuln is, or we risk alert fatigue and blowing credibility which we'll badly need when an exploitable scriptable vulnerability shows up.
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Yesterday was a tough day for much of the internet with the announcement of two critical CVEs affecting PHP. All WP Engine customer sites are running fully patched versions of PHP. Over the past 24 hours, our managed WAF rules blocked more than one million requests associated with these PHP vulnerabilities, and we have seen no successful exploit attempts. Our teams continue to actively monitor traffic and network requests to ensure no attempted exploits were successful. We realize that not all of our customers received relevant and regular status updates. To understand and learn more about what we did specifically to protect your sites, read our blog here: wpengine.com/blog/php-vulner…
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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One-click mitigation for php2shell vulnerability: If you have Cloudflare in front of your PHP website, please login to the dashboard and click this button to make sure you are protected. dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:ac… This reduces your risk but doesn't fix the vulnerabilities in PHP. We recommend updating PHP to a patched version.
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My colleague made a website to check if your website is vulnerable to PHP2Shell: php2shell.aikido.io/ We're also releasing PHP images with backported patches for free: gallery.ecr.aws/aikido-dev/p… Stay safe!
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Good news everyone! The absolute legends @ the Sury php mirror have backported the patch all the way back to 5.6
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Leaving this here, PHP 8.5.12 security patch is incomplete. ( needs further validation )
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Unvalidated AI output (author admits in replies: omp with glm5.3 + ds4), not a lab result. Its screenshot says both CVEs are fixed; the 'surviving paths' need unserialize() of attacker data or an app LFI. Patch per php.net: php.net/archive/2026.p…
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An unofficial stopgap is going around: Set session.upload_progress.enabled = Off until you can upgrade PHP hasn't confirmed it helps, but WordPress and Laravel don't use the feature Trellis steps are in the thread along with Cloudflare rules discourse.roots.io/t/upgradi…
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The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence.
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Going forward, everything being built on WordPress needs to be fully manageable in three layers- users in the admin, agencies via git/code, agents operating via CLI/MCP/code/etc. All three layers, full parity + guardrails, no exceptions.
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Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
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I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nh…
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I’ve published a post based on my @checkoutsummit talk: 5 real reasons to choose WooCommerce, based on a year of building on Shopify too. Once you strip away some common myths, it becomes much clearer where WooCommerce actually wins. barn2.com/blog/why-use-wooco…
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The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Seen as #BBCLauraK won't interview @ZackPolanski - can we share this video 10,000 times so everyone can see it?
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