Stephen Downes

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Services around the world that depend on PHP (that would include things like WordPress and Pixelfed) are either offline or being repaired today as a result of a new and critical PHP vulnerability. Here's the official announcement. I have one website running on PHP, my leftish.media blog. I checked and there isn't a patched PHP Docker container available yet, so I set a reminder to check tomorrow. Anyhow, this page has information about the vulnerability and, more importantly, what you need to recover from it.

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Last Updated: Oct 21, 2026 1:53 p.m.

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