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Armario de comunicaciones mural de una oficina, con un conmutador de red, un router y un módem conectados con cables de cobre
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Two hours from a PHP website to the domain hashes

On 21 October 2026 CISA asked for something nobody writes lightly: anyone who cannot patch PHP immediately, or who is still on 8.1 or earlier, should take their PHP-based systems off the network. These are CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both scoring 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, and the details leaked before the patch existed. But the door is not what interests us: in the case Unit 42 documents against a European government entity, two hours passed between the break-in and the password hashes, the MFA secrets and an NTLM tunnel into Active Directory. PHP did not open that path. With the branch table, the mitigations that do not mitigate, and the twenty-minute check.

Armario de comunicaciones montado en la pared de una pequeña empresa, con un router, un módem y un switch, y los cables recogidos sin orden dentro
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The flaw is WordPress's; your php.ini decides the exposure

CVE-2026-87902 entered CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 25 September, three days after the advisory and a proof of concept went public. It is a 9.2 and it is WordPress core, patched across 25 branches down to 4.7.37 (December 2016). But 9.2 measures the damage, not your exposure: the CVSS 4.0 vector itself carries AT:P — "conditions are required" — and none of the deciding conditions belong to WordPress. A PHP directive, a PEAR file and a directory inside your active theme. What each one checks, why the obvious command for looking at it from a shell returns a false answer — we measured it on a box running PHP 8.3.6 — and what NOT to do if you suspect it already happened.

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