CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS scoring system, facilitate unauthenticated remote code execution on affected deployments - CVE-2026-109618 - An out-of-memory
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- AttackRemote code execution · RCEA flaw that lets an attacker run their own code on someone else's machine over the network.
- ConceptKEV · Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogCISA's list of vulnerabilities with evidence of real-world exploitation.
- TechnologyPHPA programming language that powers a large share of websites, including WordPress.
- ConceptCVSS · Common Vulnerability Scoring SystemA 0–10 score for how severe a vulnerability is in theory.
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