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WordPress News21 Oct 2026

Critical PHP Security Release

WordPress.org News

PHP −60 WordPress security −40 WordPress core 0

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PSA: PHP Security Updates Available for Two Critical Vulnerabilities, Update Now

Wordfence

PHP −60 Wordfence +20 WordPress security −50

Wider Tech20 Oct 2026

PSA: Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release

Wordfence

PHP −60 Wordfence +20 WordPress security −50

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF

Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare +70 PHP −40 AI agents −30 WordPress security +30

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare +70 PHP −60 OpenAI +30 WordPress security −20

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

Google Reminds Sites To Serve A 503 During PHP Patch Downtime

Search Engine Journal

Google +20 PHP −40 SEO 0

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day

TechCrunch

PHP −70 eMudhra −90 TLS certificates −60 AI −20

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

TechCrunch

PHP −70 OpenAI +40 WordPress security −50 Automattic +20 Cloudflare +30 AI 0

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

Major security alert: PHP vulnerable to critical RCE, attacks ongoing

Patchstack

PHP −80 WordPress security −80 UpdraftCentral −70 Patchstack 0 Cloudflare +30 Laravel −50

WordPress News21 Oct 2026

Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress

Search Engine Journal

PHP −70 WordPress security −70 Cloudflare +10 SEO −40

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today

The Verge · The Verge

PHP −70 WordPress security −60 Wordfence +20 Cloudflare +30 WordPress core −40

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

Ars Technica

PHP −70 WordPress security −70

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP 8.5.12 released!

PHP.net

PHP +50 WordPress security +40

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP 8.4.27 released!

PHP.net

PHP +50 WordPress security +40

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP 8.3.36 released!

PHP.net

PHP +50 WordPress security +40

Wider Tech21 Oct 2026

PHP 8.2.35 released!

PHP.net

PHP +50 WordPress security +40

Wider Tech20 Oct 2026

Wordfence Argus Discovers High Severity Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in Duplicator

Wordfence

Wordfence +50 WordPress security −30 WordPress Plugins −30 PHP −10

Agency Land28 Sept 2026

Patched is not the same as maintained, warns Trew Knowledge

Trew Knowledge

WordPress security −30 PHP −20

Wider Tech24 Sept 2026

New PHP releases land across four supported branches

PHP.net · PHP.net · PHP.net · PHP.net

WordPress News22 Sept 2026

WordPress 7.1.2 Release

WordPress.org News · Patchstack

WordPress security +30 WordPress Release +30 WordPress core −20 PHP 0