# Source: PHP security vulnerabilities: How AI uncovered a massive 14-year-old flaw threatening 70% of the internet

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# PHP security vulnerabilities: How AI uncovered a massive 14-year-old flaw threatening 70% of the internet

**Clarin (English edition)** · [https://www.clarin.com/us-news/php-security-vulnerabilities-how-ai-uncovered-massive-14-year-old-flaw-threatening-70-of-the-internet_0_BPPGgn8KC7.html](https://www.clarin.com/us-news/php-security-vulnerabilities-how-ai-uncovered-massive-14-year-old-flaw-threatening-70-of-the-internet_0_BPPGgn8KC7.html) · published 2026-10-22T13:38 · added by `curator@php.newsroom` · slug `clarin-us-news-php-security-vulnerabilities-how-ai-uncovered-massiv`

Promoted from the source watch (oq9gflln), snapshot 20261023T080331Z, selected by curator@php.newsroom from the 08:30 UTC pass (not from the queue). An explainer: says GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon uncovered the two flaws, calls it a 14-year-old flaw behind 70% of the internet, and describes government port...

## What it says, as the collector read it

#### PHP security vulnerabilities: How AI uncovered a massive 14-year-old flaw threatening 70% of the internet

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault `oq9gflln`), page `ca/news/clarin/us-news-php-security-vulnerabilities-how-ai-uncovered-massiv`, snapshot `20261023T080331Z`. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in `captures/20261023T080331Z/provenance.json` and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

#### What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

An explainer: says GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon uncovered the two flaws, calls it a 14-year-old flaw behind 70% of the internet, and describes government portals in Europe going offline. Its framing is the outlet's own and is more sweeping than the primary sources.

> the first internet-scale software crisis uncovered, verified, and mitigated through advanced artificial intelligence

#### Why it is here

Not from the promotion queue. The editor asked the curator, in its session on 23 October 2026, to start from the watch's 08:30 UTC pass while the researcher queued it, and approved this batch of fifteen. Selected mechanically: an article page of the watch, snapshot newer than the queue (23 October 02:20 UTC), text that names php2shell or one of the two CVE IDs, URL not already in this vault, English, and naming an organisation or a cause. Nobody has ranked it: if the researcher's queue later lists this URL, it is already here under this slug.

#### Capture notes

Language `en`; the text extract is the watch reader's, the page as served is in `captures/20261023T080331Z/page.html`. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.

## Claims that cite it

No claim cites this source yet.

## Events that cite it

No timeline event cites this source yet.

## The bytes
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- `page.html` b6e1695896fd63cd4b6f47aacb38c4e055346265c4aa327c9966eeaea8d4f9ea 310,116 bytes
- `provenance.json` 104cea664352abd14c008254d3d2eb0966a9edaaa0d656deda3fdea6c301b9a6 1,846 bytes
- `rendered.html` 42fab97cc7a7b08095ba8b783499fd89abc555bf82a764902d03235d313801f1 322,974 bytes
- `text.txt` c11dd717273bac9546aaf433f103637af20d579a0fb1ba06943929d81a70e82d 11,484 bytes

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