Cve 2026 109618 - GoKawiil

PHP maintainers plan emergency patches for two 9.2-severity vulnerabilities

PHP maintainers announced Monday that patches for two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 out of 10 in severity, would be released within about 12 hours. The advisory followed leaked, unconfirmed details of an exploit tool called PHP2Shell demonstrated against popular PHP-based platforms including WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and Joomla. Security firm watchTowr said the flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, appear to affect every PHP version since PHP 5 in 2004 and that it has confirmed they are genuine.

arstechnica.com · 2026-10-21

PHP 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.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-10-20