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The PHP2Shell Vulnerability Heralds Cybersecurity Hell

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The PHP2Shell vulnerability, a critical flaw in the widely used PHP language that could let attackers read sensitive data and run malicious code on servers hosting sites like WordPress and Drupal, was found by Calif researchers with AI assistance and patched before exploitation, per IEEE Spectrum.

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