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Fact · exploitation · reported

Reports of active exploitation exist

Who says it: NCSC New Zealand · Sources: NCSC New Zealand

The only agency saying so, and it does not say whose reports.

Fact-check

A2 Reported disputed · Attribution · verdict: holds

NCSC NZ's own alert carries the sentence verbatim; one named party, unsourced reports. Other agencies captured at about the same time say the opposite (CCCS: no active exploitation identified; ACSC: not aware of successful active exploitation in Australia; CISA: not observed as of publication).

Capture checkedResultWhat it sayssha256 of the text read
ncsc-nz-alert-phpcarriesThe NCSC is aware of reports of active exploitation.992fc3b6639069a9
cccs-al26-026absenta Proof of Concept (PoC) is available, with no active exploitation being identified at this time, but that can change quickly.9e7f44cc73e21ad5
acsc-alert-phpabsentASD’s ACSC is not aware of successful active exploitation within Australia, related to these vulnerabilities.9370af142ded6de9
certlv-php-preventivepartialLatvijā jau ir konstatēti automatizēti mēģinājumi izmantot PHP ievainojamībase37a6582c4e6c685

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Graded in Run-1, resting on captures up to 2026-10-22 08:17 UTC. The scale is on the fact-check page.

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  1. 2026-10-22 08:17 UTCSaved into the evidence vault: NCSC New Zealand
  2. 2026-10-22 09:15 UTCNCSC New Zealand publishes UPDATED: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 affecting PHP
  3. 2026-10-22Enters this site as reported in v0.1.0 (reconstructed from git)

Published: when the source says it was published. Saved: the first capture into the evidence vault. The rest are this site: the release in which the fact first appeared and every release that changed its wording, sources or status.

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UPDATED: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 affecting PHPfact nz-active

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v1 · site v0.1.0 · 22 October 2026 · reported
Reports of active exploitation exist
Who says it: NCSC New Zealand
Status: reported
Topic: exploitation
Sources: ncsc-nz-alert-php