Introduction A critical vulnerability was discovered in a widely-used WordPress backup plugin, putting approximately 50,000 websites at risk of Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks. This security flaw highlights the ongoing
AEGIS is an AES-based family of authenticated encryption algorithms that are significantly faster than ubiquitous algorithms such as AES-GCM and CHACHA20-POLY1305. The Sodium extension in PHP 8.4 supports AEGIS-128L and
A researcher hijacked over a dozen Packagist packages—with some having been installed hundreds of millions of times over the course of their lifetime. The researcher reached out to BleepingComputer stating
With a handful of new features such as typed class constants, granular Exceptions in the DateTime extension, the new json_validate function, functionality changes and improvements, and deprecations, PHP 8.3 is
Caddy Server is a modular and modern web server platform that supports automatic HTTPS certificates, QUIC and HTTP/2, Zstd and Brotli compression, and various modern features as well as classic
WordPress and many WordPress hosts make updates easy with automation. Still, manual updates can be a hassle. Is upgrading PHP worth your time? Absolutely. The benefits of the latest PHP
HTTP/3 is the third major version of HTTP, and is based on QUIC. Unlike HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 which relied on TCP, HTTP/3 is based on a multiplexed UDP protocol named
The premium WordPress plugin ‘Gravity Forms,’ currently used by over 930,000 websites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated PHP Object Injection. Gravity Forms is a custom form builder website owners use for
PHP provides parse_ini_string and parse_ini_file functions that reuse PHP’s built-in PHP parser it uses for PHP’s own INI-based configuration files. In addition to parsing the text, the INI parser supports
PHP 8 has been officially released to the General Availability on November 26, 2020! This new major update brings many optimizations and powerful features to the language. We’re excited to
