GoKawiilPHP team to release emergency patches for two critical RCE flaws after leak
The PHP security team announced it will ship fixes on Wednesday, October 21 at 14:00 UTC for two vulnerabilities each rated 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, after details reportedly leaked ahead of a planned embargoed disclosure. Researchers at watchTowr say the flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, are remote code execution bugs affecting PHP versions 5 through 8, and that watchTowr has reproduced one of them without releasing technical details.