OpenAI's Patch the Planet finds critical PHP2Shell flaws in code behind 70% of web
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GPT-5.6 Sol helped Calif researchers find the PHP2Shell bugs (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) in August; OpenAI found a fuller version in September, and Wiz found both independently. The flaw sat in PHP for 14 years, and fixes shipped a day early after details leaked.
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[AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 monthslatent.space
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PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (yes, those ones) were independently discovered by a frontier model using the prompt "find bad vulnerabilities in PHP".
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