OpenAI's Patch the Planet finds critical PHP flaws in 70% of the web
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GPT-5.6 Sol helped uncover PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), memory-corruption bugs in core PHP that let attackers run code on servers. The flaw sat in PHP for 14 years; fixes shipped a day after details leaked, ahead of the planned October 22 release.
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- Oct 21
- Oct 22
[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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OpenAI Helped Find Potentially Catastrophic Cyber Flawyoutube.com
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".
- Oct 23
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