Hong Kong watchdog warns of hacking risks from flaws in web programming language
Por Simpson Cheung — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Cybersecurity watchdog urges website operators to install updates immediately to fix two critical PHP flaws that could let hackers take over servers
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Simpson Cheung Published: 2:37pm, 22 Oct 2026
A Hong Kong information security watchdog issued an “extremely high risk” warning on Thursday morning over two critical flaws in a widely used web programming language that could allow hackers to execute code remotely and take control of servers.
The warning followed similar alerts from governments and cybersecurity agencies overseas, which urged website operators to install updates to fix the vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language.
The Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) said a remote attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to execute code on a targeted system.
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