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If you patched PHP yesterday, you're not done yet 🚨
php2shell started with an error every PHP dev has seen a thousand times:
"Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted"
Here's what actually went wrong, and what the update didn't fix 👇
I built an app that automatically creates on-brand YouTube videos from raw, unedited clips.
Here's a video that was created from a raw 65 min 40GB video file. I uploaded a cam video, a screencast video, and an audio file -- and this is what came out the other end w/ZERO edits:
The app also automatically makes shorts from long-form videos, and natively formatted (not just cropped-down long-forms).
Here's one (it generated 5, of which 3 were very good): xitter.cf/MarkShust/status/21150…
Here's the original YouTube video btw, which took me 6+ hours to edit. I think the automatically-edited one is objectively better: youtube.com/watch?v=P_1TtSBQ…
Marko is now FASTER than Laravel 🚀
A well-known Magento + PHP dev ported their Laravel 13 app to Marko, then benchmarked both:
- 1.2-1.3x more req/s
- ~2/3 the CPU per req
- half the memory
- 6x faster CLI start
On 0.8.5 it was 2x slower. Now they're moving their site over.
If you looked at Marko back in April and moved on, it's time for another look.
Docs: shu.st/zkbhbU
Repo: shu.st/LLbE25
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Patched PHP this week? Great. That closes the door...
but it doesn't kick out anyone who already got in 🥷
If your server was public and unpatched, here's how worried to be and what to rotate 👇
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Missed the first part? Here's what php2shell actually broke, and the hardening steps to do first 👇
xitter.cf/MarkShust/status/21132…
This was all only a matter of time with AI. People haven't been taking web security seriously. They still aren't.
Maybe they will... soon? 🤷♂️
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.



