ZDNet: Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks. “According to statistics from W3Techs, roughly 78.9 percent of all Internet sites today run on PHP. 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.”
ThreatPost: PHPMailer Bug Leaves Millions of Websites Open to Attack. “The vulnerability (CVE-2016-10033) is related to the way websites handle web-based email submission forms using the PHPMailer component. PHP is an (Hypertext Preprocessor) open-source scripting language embedded into website HTML. PHPMailer is a popular component used by an estimated 9 million sites for handing tasks such as email submission and registration forms. According to Golunski all version of PHPMailer released before version 5.2.18 are affected.”
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