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#2 The Hacker News general October 27, 2026 at 04:37 UTC

CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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CISA added two critical PHP2Shell flaws — CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated 9.2 CVSS — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming active in-the-wild exploitation enabling unauthenticated remote code execution. Federal agencies were given a tight remediation deadline of Thursday to patch affected PHP deployments. The PHP project also issued a second emergency Windows package rebuild within five days to address the related Brotli library flaw CVE-2026-111497 affecting PHP 8.2 through 8.5.

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