AI-Assisted PHP Flaw Triggers Global Emergency Patching
BBC Technology reports that AI-assisted research uncovered serious flaws in PHP, prompting the PHP Foundation to issue a fix and website operators to take sites down as a precaution. Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks reportedly observed millions of exploitation attempts, but no successful attack had been confirmed when the article was published. The patch works only on the latest PHP version, so older sites must upgrade before applying it.
The incident demonstrates both AI’s growing role in identifying difficult software vulnerabilities and the operational burden of patching a language used by millions of websites.
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