Status in the company's own words: patching. Statement dated Oct 21, 2026 - 22:09 EDT (latest; first Oct 21, 2026 - 09:27 EDT).
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Our Engineering teams are actively working to deploy patched PHP builds across our hosting infrastructure. quoted from https://status.nexcess.com/incidents/n4fpf22f5xtf (title: PHP Security Vulnerability Assessment (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)). No completion notice at this check; same wording as sister brand Liquid Web. Customers told to verify patch status and, if unpatched, run a package update through their control panel; EOL PHP sites told to move to a supported version.
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Captured . Status named: patching.
Nexcess lists affected services, and patching is underway—but it has not confirmed that all environments are patched. As checked on October 23, 2026, its latest official update is dated October 22, 2026, at 15:27 EDT. Affected: Nexcess’s incident for both CVEs lists Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS Hosting, cPanel, InterWorx, and Plesk. This does not establish that every customer site
Captured . Status named: no public statement located.
I was unable to find any Nexcess-specific advisory, blog post, or statement addressing PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619). There is no publicly available source confirming whether Nexcess has or has not patched this vulnerability on its platform, or issued guidance to its customers. You should contact Nexcess support directly for an authoritative answer. That said, here is what is known
Yes. Nexcess was affected where its infrastructure was running vulnerable PHP versions, because PHP2Shell affects PHP installations serving web requests, including PHP-FPM and Apache/mod_php. The fixed upstream PHP versions are 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, and 8.5.12. Nexcess reported on October 22, 2026 that most affected hosts had been patched and patching was still underway on the remaining hosts. Therefore, Nexcess
Captured . No status named. Cites a nexcess.net page.
Yes, Nexcess was affected by the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), and its security and engineering teams have rolled out patches across their hosting environments. Status & Patch Details Affected Systems: Nexcess infrastructure running PHP versions 5.4 and later was initially exposed to the critical RCE flaws. Patch Status: Nexcess has rolled out fixes across the majority of their
Captured . Status named: patching. Cites a nexcess.net page.
Yes, Nexcess is affected by PHP2Shell, and they have begun patching their hosting environments. Because PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) impacts the core PHP engine itself (affecting versions 5.4 and later), all managed hosting environments running PHP are inherently vulnerable until updated. According to the official Nexcess Status Page, their security and engineering teams identified the threat on October 21,
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