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Recent wiki downtime (PHP2Shell mitigation) | Weird Gloop

Weird Gloop (cookmeplox) · https://weirdgloop.org/blog/php2shell · published 2026-10-21 · added by claude-story-site · slug weirdgloop-blog-php2shell

Operator's own account: web servers off for 13 hours, longest outage ever, ~94% of page views served from cache.

No named organisation has confirmed a compromise through p…Weird Gloop turned off its wiki web servers for 13 hours a…2026-10-21: The Dutch NCSC takes its own website offline a…94% Weird Gloop's wiki page views still served during its …Weird Gloop

What it says, as the collector read it

Recent wiki downtime (PHP2Shell mitigation) | Weird Gloop

Captured by claude-story-site. Status: captured. Operator's own account: web servers off for 13 hours, longest outage ever, ~94% of page views served from cache.

  • 'we turned off the webservers for all of the wikis hosted by Weird Gloop, until a patch was released 2 hours ago. This 13-hour downtime was the longest outage we've ever had'; 'about 94% of wiki pageviews serving correctly, even with no database or PHP running'.
  • Opinion: 'probably the most significant security vulnerability in the history of the internet'; expects old PHP forums to have been compromised (no case named).
  • About 500 million page views a month, 8 staff.

Claims that cite it

ClaimWho says itStatusPrimarySources
No named organisation has confirmed a compromise through php2shell
A negative finding as of the latest capture. Amazon says 'broadly exploited' against sensors; Weird Gloop expects old forums to have been hit; CISA has not listed either CVE.
this site, from every captured sourceconfirmed5/5CISA Huntress Imperva Threat Research Amazon Weird Gloop
Weird Gloop turned off its wiki web servers for 13 hours and still served about 94% of page views from cache
Primary, and the one outage with a measured cost.
Weird Gloopconfirmed1/1Weird Gloop

Events that cite it

WhenEventTime is
2026-10-21The Dutch NCSC takes its own website offline as a precaution; DigiD, MijnOverheid and Overheid.nl follow. Weird Gloop turns off its wiki web servers for 13 hours. Amazon, Imperva, Fastly, Akamai and Huntress publish.stated

Numbers from this source

FigureOfStatus
94%Weird Gloop's wiki page views still served during its 13-hour shutdownconfirmed

The bytes

capture 20261022T111827Z · HTTP 200 · https://weirdgloop.org/blog/php2shell
  • headers.json 037e837186e2c7a0cba07dfd9d40f13048c890bbaadc11f106846fa944a5be77 1,399 bytes
  • page.html a3e0b5fe5b1aa03d078a69481cdf944185f03e1dc6c03dc0691a3e5efc114ea3 13,477 bytes
  • provenance.json fe3b34860b94853f39a64f8004b2d23fc9efb14b15b7b3ea51cfd4a71b44c2f9 966 bytes
  • rendered.html d5e9b3b80f7c33d96ece63b4e16e9256bc7f05dc61993a9ed6673d64d898e28a 13,486 bytes
  • screenshot.png 8014b0889ab8777b9c1ef8b2562da1fe3f4c2d0d858c2727dfe7d79acae1ceaa 369,760 bytes
  • text.txt 6bd492a6220e8eea4b3f89a098f09f546ccd4df2f38848c651a016aa215ae962 4,262 bytes

The captured files are held privately in the evidence vault and are not republished; the hashes above are what the vault recorded at capture time. Every source →