# Who says what: version history

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# Who says what: every version

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v3 · site v0.3.1 · 22 October 2026 · reconstructed from git · 4 lines added or changed, 4 removed or changed, against v2 · 4cdd0dfcdd83# Who says what: every party and its claims14 unchanged lines| Alexandre Daubois, PHP security team (personal blog) | inside account of the rumours and the leak | 4 | Daubois || Calif (Ryan Austin, @lcfr_hax; Michal Zalewski) | first reporter; published the write-up with demo videos | 5 | Calif Ryan Austin ,Austin, Calif on X || OpenAI (Patch the Planet, Codex Security, Amy Burnett) | reported the same root cause on 11 August; ran the coordination coalition | 3 | OpenAI on X OpenAI OpenAI forum |10 unchanged lines| Dan Lorenc, Chainguard | shipped patched images early; says exploits were in the wild and denies leaking | 2 | The Register Feross Aboukhadijeh on X on X || Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO | the attempt counts | 1 | Matthew Prince ,Prince, Cloudflare CEO onon… || Imperva Threat Research | had the details under embargo; saw nothing before disclosure | 1 | Imperva Threat Research |5 unchanged lines| Valtori and NCSC-FI | Finland's precautionary shutdown | 1 | Yle Helsinki Times || Community detection authors (darkfibr, rjmendez, Lexsah, Blevene) | the rules, and the correction of the leaked PoC's mechanism | 1 | darkfibr ,darkfibr, GitHub rjmendez, GitHub Lexsah, GitHub Blevene || Arnaud Le Blanc and the PHP fix authors | wrote the fix | 0 | php/php-src ,php/php-src, read from a clone |v2 · site v0.3.0 · 22 October 2026 · reconstructed from git · 2 lines added or changed, 0 removed or changed, against v1 · 5edb162a6f52# Who says what: every party and its claims3 unchanged lines# Who says whatIn plain English Every organisation and person quoted, and what each one says.30 unchanged lines| Arnaud Le Blanc and the PHP fix authors | wrote the fix | 0 | php/php-src , read from a clone |v1 · site v0.2.0 · 22 October 2026 · reconstructed from git · the first version · 2249cbbdb7a8
# Who says what: every party and its claims 27 parties in the php2shell story, each with the claims this site attributes to it and the sources behind them. # Who says what 27 parties whose words this site quotes: maintainers, researchers, agencies, vendors, operators and reporters. Each has a page with the claims it makes, the sources those claims come from, and its own small graph. The count is of claims this site attributes to the party; a party with many claims and few primary sources is one whose word is being taken. | Party | Role in the story | Claims | Sources | |---|---|---|---| | The PHP Group / php.net | maintainer, CVE numbering authority | 5 | php.net php.net php-src | | The PHP Foundation | funds core developers; published the account of discovery and the leak | 0 | PHP Foundation | | Jakub Zelenka (bukka), PHP security team | published both GitHub advisories and the oss-security announcements | 4 | PHP oss-security | | Alexandre Daubois, PHP security team (personal blog) | inside account of the rumours and the leak | 4 | Daubois | | Calif (Ryan Austin, @lcfr_hax; Michal Zalewski) | first reporter; published the write-up with demo videos | 5 | Calif Ryan Austin , Calif on X | | OpenAI (Patch the Planet, Codex Security, Amy Burnett) | reported the same root cause on 11 August; ran the coordination coalition | 3 | OpenAI on X OpenAI OpenAI forum | | Wiz Research | independent discovery 19 August; the '70% of the Internet' headline | 0 | Wiz Wiz on X | | Quarkslab, OSTIF | 2024 audit that first surfaced the OOM issue | 1 | PHP Foundation Calif | | Cloudflare | WAF rules live 9 hours early; saw attack traffic | 3 | Cloudflare | | Amazon (CJ Moses) | honeypot evidence of a pre-disclosure attempt | 1 | THN | | Chainguard | published patched images before the embargo lifted, per the Foundation | 1 | PHP Foundation Techzine | | watchTowr | confirmed the CVE numbers in public on 20 October, per Daubois | 2 | Daubois CERT-EU | | National agencies (NSA, CISA, NCSC UK, CERT-EU, CERT-FR, CCCS, ACSC, NCSC NZ, NCSC-NL, ACN, BACS, CERT.LV, JPCERT) | advisories; see the agency table | 11 | NSA CISA NCSC UK | | BBC News (live page; Kieran Kelly, Imogen James) | the coverage most readers saw on the morning of 22 October | 0 | BBC News | | Alan Woodward, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security | commentator quoted by the BBC: 30 million websites; probing seen by Amazon and Cloudflare | 2 | BBC News | | The Hacker News (Ravie Lakshmanan) | carried Amazon's honeypot account and VulnCheck's host count | 1 | THN | | Dan Lorenc, Chainguard | shipped patched images early; says exploits were in the wild and denies leaking | 2 | The Register Feross Aboukhadijeh on X on X | | Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO | the attempt counts | 1 | Matthew Prince , Cloudflare CEO on | | Imperva Threat Research | had the details under embargo; saw nothing before disclosure | 1 | Imperva Threat Research | | Fastly | the most candid vendor on exploitability and on what a WAF cannot do | 2 | Fastly | | Akamai | rule 3000991; the 2024 precedent | 1 | Akamai Security Research Akamai Security Research | | Huntress | no exploitation seen on partner systems | 2 | Huntress | | Weird Gloop (cookmeplox) | the one operator with a measured outage | 1 | Weird Gloop | | The Dutch government and NCSC-NL | took its own site offline | 3 | Rijksoverheid / NCSC-NL NCSC-NL | | Valtori and NCSC-FI | Finland's precautionary shutdown | 1 | Yle Helsinki Times | | Community detection authors (darkfibr, rjmendez, Lexsah, Blevene) | the rules, and the correction of the leaked PoC's mechanism | 1 | darkfibr , GitHub rjmendez, GitHub Lexsah, GitHub Blevene | | Arnaud Le Blanc and the PHP fix authors | wrote the fix | 0 | php/php-src , read from a clone | [Every section, across every release →](../index.html)


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