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Internet websites worldwide are facing a security alert following the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in PHP discovered with the aid of artificial intelligence models, amid government warnings of widespread exploitation before necessary patches are released.
Two critical security vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language have forced emergency measures and widespread update campaigns around the world after the discovery of potential unauthenticated remote exploitation.
PHP maintainers are preparing urgent patches to address two severe vulnerabilities with a severity score of 9.2 out of 10, amid security warnings of imminent attacks targeting millions of servers and global websites.