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Tell us: have you been affected by the PHP code flaw?

The Guardian •
October 22, 2026 • 02:17 PM
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We’d like to hear from small businesses that have been affected by the PHP code flaw. Did you have to take you website offline? Did you manage to patch the fault?

Tell us: have you been affected by the PHP code flaw?

Websites around the world have been hit by millions of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in their code , cybersecurity companies have said, as the US National Security Agency warned the flaw could allow attackers to take control of web servers, steal data and disrupt services.

The problem in the PHP programming language, which underpins about 70% of the world’s websites, emerged on Wednesday causing governments and companies to pull their websites off the internet before they could be attacked and so they could patch the fault.

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