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PHP vulnerabilities put up to 70% of internet sites at risk

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Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the PHP programming language, posing a significant risk to a large portion of the internet. Given that PHP is estimated to power up to 70 percent of websites, including major platforms like Wikipedia, WordPress, and Drupal, these flaws could have widespread implications. The discovery has placed numerous popular sites and services on high alert. AI

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PHP vulnerabilities put up to 70% of internet sites at risk

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    Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP

    Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including Dev…

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