A PHP software bug sat in the code behind 70% of the websites on the internet for 14 years because every person who looked at the software bug called the flaw too hard to exploit. Alex from Speedify breaks down why PHP, a 1994 personal home page project that critics have called a hack from the start, still holds up the web through cheap shared hosting, WordPress, and WordPress plugins. Then Alex walks through how the attack works: a massive file upload makes PHP run out of memory and stop without cleaning up, the attacker overwrites that leftover memory with the attacker’s own code, and the attacker’s next request runs that code on the server. In August, people using AI found the PHP software bug again, the software bug leaked before the fix was ready, attacks started within hours, and the PHP Foundation had to rush out patches. Alex’s fix: use AI to attack a website’s own servers first, and keep scanning.
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