The day the internet broke, and most of it is too old to fix.

Oct 21, 2026 · 12:55 PM UTC

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If PHP actually cared about its userbase, they would patch this all the way down to 7.2 @ThePHPF If 46% of PHP sites get hacked, it's on you.
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Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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When you tell the mangers they have to upgrade and some Indian says they don’t and they listen to the dude that used 4 for security
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They can still update it and probably will Windows XP had a lot of updates past security support ending, usually pressured to by the government still running it, though. If it's used enough they will probably feel it's imperative to update.
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Time to rewrite it in Rust.
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This is going to suck for some older sites that cannot take the jump to 8.2. Old WP sites that are stuck on legacy Elementor themes are going to be hosed.
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Misleading af. Read the rest of the post.... Backport avail for base, otherwise building from source isn't out of the question.
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@grok statistically home many websites are now EOL of the entire internet? in %? just a balpark guess
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It was foretold
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@grok could you and @claudeai team up to patch the EOL versions of PHP that won’t get the official update? Do it for the sake of the internet.
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Better use AI to build websites!
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Use react
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too old to fix" is also how i describe the first codebase i ever shipped lol
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Update your systems folks.
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Looking at servers instead of top sites, it’s worse: in IPinfo’s Internet-wide scan last week, 74% of 1.3M addresses showing a PHP version ran 8.1 or older. PHP did publish source patches for 7.4–8.1, but 7.3 and older (at least 620,990 addresses) get nothing. xitter.cf/emot/status/2112933269…
João Tomé
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PHP fixed two critical flaws today. Wiz, which found them, says every version since 5.4 is affected, but the official updates only cover 8.2 and newer. In @IPinfo's Internet-wide scan last week, at least 502,180 addresses showed a PHP version from 5.4 to 7.3: affected, with no fix at all. That’s nearly 4 in 10 of those that show a version. Many servers hide their version, and some Linux distributions patch old ones themselves, so this is a floor.
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youtu.be/9Jmwcp1psw8?is=pod3…

Attacked Before the Patch: How 2 Leaked PHP Bugs Outran the Fix

Before PHP had shipped a fix, Cloudflare says attackers were alread...

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Very high percentage seem sol.
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46.1% ... most probably mod_php and not in containers!~
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Nothing ever happens
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Wordpress plugins abandoned years ago are not ready
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“we'll upgrade it later” just became today's entire to-do list
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Fools, PHP has published backported fixes
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end of world
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a lot of these are running on php 7.4 and a prayer, and today the prayer went end of life too
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Don’t worry we can just roll a new internet with AI
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Are we cooked chat?
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Damn 👀
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But it’s not late to fix it ♾️💕🖊️
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Useful breakdown. For context, the 46.1% covers the roughly 30 percent of PHP sites that reveal a version, which is the part that can be measured today.
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welcome to 2010
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Surely for the sake and safety of the internet, they would make an exception and release a fix for older versions despite being EOL right?
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old versions fixed:
🦆 SchizoDuckie 🦆@SchizoDuckie12h
Good news everyone! The absolute legends @ the Sury php mirror have backported the patch all the way back to 5.6
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It is irresponsible from PHP devs not to fix this one in older majors, just as a one off. The consequences will be terrible if people do not upgrade because being unable to do so and take the risk
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I work at a university we use moodle which is an learning platform used for students needing to submit assignments and work that site uses php as well immidately we are upgrading the php for moodle to night
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Can someone explain to the average citizen who barely knows what is a programming language and don't host anything, what should I do?
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