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The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable - WIRED
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Exposure is vast, and some sites are still down PHP powers about 70% of websites globally, so the possible exposure to vulnerability was immense.
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
The vulnerabilities opened sites to a host of potential security concerns The official website for PHP and several other organizations and agencies released security advisories Wednesday urging PHP users to patch two critical vulnerabilities or shut down their sites if they couldn’t update them imme
The malicious activity was caught by Adel Karimi, detection and response lead at Perplexity, whose honeypots recorded evidence of confirmed remote code execution against an Apache mod_php installation running PHP 8.4.26.
"This is now confirmed RCE with usable memory disclosure, not just a crash followed by a suspicious process.
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