{
  "id": 16006349,
  "title": "What is PHP, and how bad is the computer language flaw causing website shutdowns globally?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/what-is-php-and-how-bad-is-the-computer-language-flaw-causing-website",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T04:21:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/22/what-is-php-computer-language-flaw-causing-global-website-shutdowns"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An estimated 70% of websites use the open-source language. What is the identified vulnerability in it? Websites across the world have been taken offline in the past day as governments and businesses work to patch newly discovered vulnerabilities in PHP , a programming language that underpins much of the internet. The exposed flaw would have allowed hackers to carry out cyber-attacks. What were…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}