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WordPress (WordPress.org) and PHP2Shell

Status in the company's own words: customer must update. Statement dated October 21, 2026.

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Company
WordPress (WordPress.org)
Domain
wordpress.org
Group
Platform
Index category
not an Index vendor
Status
customer must update
Statement found
yes
Statement
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/10/critical-php-security-release/
Statement date
Fixed version named
no
Worker restart stated
no
End of life plan stated
yes
Source type
official page
Places checked
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The statement

Read the statement on wordpress.org, dated . Source type: official page.

Notes

News post Critical PHP Security Release by John Blackbourn (WordPress security team): Due to the critical severity of the issues, site owners are encouraged to immediately update their installations of PHP. , No WordPress update is required or planned for these issues. and Versions of PHP prior to 8.2 no longer receive security updates from the PHP project. quoted from the statement URL. Site owners told to check with their host, which may already be patching PHP or deploying WAF rules; self-managed sites on older PHP advised to consider taking the server offline while upgrading. No CVE IDs, no PHP versions, no WordPress.org infrastructure statement. Automattic's own hosting statement is in the WooCommerce row.

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