Php2shell Scanner

No. 104 of 245 · GitHub · published 23 Oct 2026, 09:30 UTC · 3 min read

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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked

Hrih News summary: Assetnote's Php2shell Scanner is an open-source command-line tool that detects CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 in PHP applications by sending crafted multipart requests with deeply nested array keys and reading the resulting memory-exhaustion, worker-failure, or version signals.

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Score

0.66total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.58
Reader interest0.73
Audience breadth0.43
Practical relevance0.78
Substantiated0.71
Technical depth0.81
New information0.88
Counts against: Promotional0.06
Counts against: Overclaim0.15

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.51	0.55	0.68	0.58	0.17	+0.25	+0.145
Reader interest	0.62	0.70	0.86	0.73	0.24	+0.20	+0.145
Audience breadth	0.25	0.60	0.45	0.43	0.35	+0.10	+0.043
Practical relevance	0.71	0.80	0.82	0.78	0.10	+0.15	+0.117
Substantiated	0.82	0.60	0.72	0.71	0.22	+0.10	+0.071
Technical depth	0.93	0.70	0.80	0.81	0.23	+0.10	+0.081
New information	0.94	0.70	1.00	0.88	0.30	+0.10	+0.088
Promotional	0.06	0.05	0.08	0.06	0.03	−0.15	−0.009
Overclaim	0.13	0.20	0.12	0.15	0.08	−0.15	−0.022
Sum of contributions							+0.659
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.658

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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No other coverage was clustered with this story.

Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 2 pts, not on front page

Discussion on Hacker News

Recorded for context only, checked 24 Oct 2026, 08:54 UTC. It played no part in the ranking.

Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.