PHP SECURITY VULNERABILITY AFFECTING HOSTING SERVICES

  • Wednesday, 21st October, 2026
  • 21:37pm

 

Dear customers,

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP were disclosed today: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. You may find more information about the vulnerability at https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-21-5

What happened?

Security researchers found two vulnerabilities that include memory disclosure and unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP itself, independent of the application running on top of it, putting every affected website in immediate risk.

Affected Services: Websites, frameworks, plugins or any applications running PHP (all versions) on all platforms (shared, reseller and VPS/dedicated servers).

Current Status:

If you host your website with us, we have taken care of this for you:

  • Firewall protection. Imunify360 security firewall has been updated to recognize and block these attacks.
  • Protective settings applied. PHP settings adjusted on all our servers to close off known ways these vulnerabilities can be exploited.
  • Updates being installed. Our software vendors (cPanel, DirectAdmin and CloudLinux) are releasing and installing updated PHP versions.
  • Ongoing monitoring. Our team is keeping a close watch on all servers.

 

Do I need to do anything?

No action is needed. Your website continues to run normally.

 

Recommended

If your website or application still uses an older PHP version (8.1 or below), we recommend moving to PHP 8.2 or newer version. You can change this through the MultiPHP Manager in cPanel

In the meantime, customers are advised to keep their CMS, themes, plugins, and other applications up to date and regularly monitor their websites for any unusual activity. If you manage your VPS or dedicated server, please update PHP now to the fixed version.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Kind Regards,

Nescom Team

 

 

 

 

 

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