In fact, PHP 5.6 is the most commonly used version of PHP on WordPress, accounting for 37 percent of sites using the platform.

Three days later, still no new details about how the official PHP website hosted a backdoored version of the PEAR package manager for the past six months.

Support for PHP 5.6 drops on December 31 - but a recent report found that almost 62 percent of websites are still using version 5.

The PHP group has released two new versions of the scripting language that fix cve-2012-1863 vulnerability that leads to source code disclosure.

PHP version 7.1 will reach EOL in December 2019. According to official WordPress statistics, 45.3% of WordPress publishers are running their sites on PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.

The new version, PHP 8, promises to bring even more power and speed allowing for even better results. Unlike something like JavaScript, which is client-side, PHP is server-side.

Ubiquiti devices use 20-year-old PHP version The vulnerability is possible because of bad firmware coding, but also because Ubiquiti used an ancient PHP version to power the device's built-in server.

PHP versions prior to 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 are vulnerable. The Imperva blog post said that an estimated 16 percent of public websites are running a vulnerable version.

But on December 31, 2018, security support for PHP 5.6.x will officially cease, marking the end of all support for any version of the ancient PHP 5.x branch. This means that starting with next ...