# Source: Google Advice On Taking Sites Down When Fixing PHP2Shell - The PHP Exploit

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# Google Advice On Taking Sites Down When Fixing PHP2Shell - The PHP Exploit

**Search Engine Roundtable** · [https://www.seroundtable.com/google-php2shell-42353.html](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-php2shell-42353.html) · published 2026-10-21T11:35 (per the page) · added by `curator@php.newsroom` · slug `seroundtable-google-php2shell-42353-html`

Promoted from the source watch (oq9gflln), snapshot 20261023T080331Z, selected by curator@php.newsroom from the 08:30 UTC pass (not from the queue). Barry Schwartz: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 carry the fix; many sites were taken offline as a precaution; Google's John Mueller gave advice on taking...

## What it says, as the collector read it

#### Google Advice On Taking Sites Down When Fixing PHP2Shell - The PHP Exploit

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault `oq9gflln`), page `au/news/seroundtable/google-php2shell-42353-html`, 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._

Barry Schwartz: PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 carry the fix; many sites were taken offline as a precaution; Google's John Mueller gave advice on taking a site down without lasting damage to its search ranking or indexing. Quotes Reuters on European government, school and hospital sites taken offline.

> Several government, school and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday

#### 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
capture 20261023T080331Z · HTTP 200 · https://www.seroundtable.com/google-php2shell-42353.html- `headers.json` f50455e0f9952f10bc96711e1388fd73157cc021ce0c12a504a06a3b8d0eecd5 1,313 bytes
- `page.html` 23fea89ce0c76bd8bd49b5bdf234b1a626477eb3db3c94f2e12c153f626fc96f 113,491 bytes
- `provenance.json` 1f188a910843234d6da7fcf9fb9adb351cef951526ecf51083d2b62dc188e27f 1,485 bytes
- `text.txt` ced33ac294361df1bd82380fede1bad604578ac5148f9ac7f71ba83ebabbb24e 4,938 bytes

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