Website administrators are being urged to get ready. PHP, the programming language that underpins countless sites and web applications, is set to issue fixes for two vulnerabilities that are considered unusually severe. The patches are scheduled to appear in just over twelve hours, according to the language’s maintainers, who announced the plan on Monday.
Both flaws carry a severity score of 9.2 out of 10. The advisory advises all PHP users to prepare now so they can apply the updates as soon as they are released. The maintainers also note that they may issue the patches earlier if details of either vulnerability become public or if evidence of active exploitation emerges in the wild.