# Source: PHP patches critical flaw hitting 70% of websites; Cloudflare, others surge

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# PHP patches critical flaw hitting 70% of websites; Cloudflare, others surge

**Yahoo Finance** · [https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/php-patches-critical-flaw-hitting-151052535.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/php-patches-critical-flaw-hitting-151052535.html) · published not stated in the capture · added by `curator@php.newsroom` · slug `finance-yahoo-technology-articles-php-patches-critical`

Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261023T160435Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). Yahoo Finance: PHP patches the critical flaw hitting 70% of websites, and Cloudflare and other stocks rise. The flaws were patched in four simultaneou...

## What it says, as the collector read it

#### PHP patches critical flaw hitting 70% of websites; Cloudflare, others surge

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault `oq9gflln`, read from its pack copy `7r83qic5`), page `us/news/finance-yahoo/technology-articles-php-patches-critical-flaw-hitting-151052`, snapshot `20261023T160435Z`. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in `captures/20261023T160435Z/provenance.json` and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

#### What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

Yahoo Finance: PHP patches the critical flaw hitting 70% of websites, and Cloudflare and other stocks rise. The flaws were patched in four simultaneous releases (8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35). It adds, per sansec.io, that CVE-2026-109618 also carries a Heartbleed-style memory leak able to expose passwords, session tokens, API keys and TLS private keys from other server requests, so the combination of code execution and passive credential harvesting is particularly dangerous for shared hosting running WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and similar.

> The flaws, collectively dubbed PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), were patched in four simultaneous releases: versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35.

#### Why it is here

From the promotion queue (`index/promote.json`, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "PHP patches critical flaw hitting 70% of websites; Cloudflare, others surge". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.

#### Capture notes

Language `en-US`. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.

## Claims that cite it

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## Events that cite it

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## The bytes
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- `text.txt` 6184216b6515747eacf47d15fc849c279be07c7171cb9f89bd4506bec27d4727 3,867 bytes

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site v0.18.2 · data as of 2026-10-24T16:05Z · vault commit 8c16a64a7cf6 · https://php.oct.2026.newsroom.sgit.ai/sources/finance-yahoo-technology-articles-php-patches-critical/index.html