Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Cause Global Website Outages

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, rated 9.2 out of 10 on the CVSS 4.0 scale, caused widespread website outages globally. Developers promise to release a patch today by 5:00 PM Moscow time.

The scale of the incident demonstrates the severity of the threat to global infrastructure:

• The Dutch parliament's website was temporarily taken offline
• Finnish government services switched to standby mode
• Popular imageboard 4chan restricted access to read-only mode
• DeviantArt also conducted technical maintenance
• MMO developer Alderon Games suspended server operations for up to three days
• Rule34 took its first day off in 14 years