{
  "id": 16385889,
  "title": "An animated explainer of the PHP2Shell vulnerability",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/an-animated-explainer-of-the-php2shell-vulnerability",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-24T22:48:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kz4bWKoXhU"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hi all! 3 days since the Internet almost melted down, I've wanted to know how you can pwn any PHP server with a single request, and the explanations have been mostly \"something about out-of-memory.\" I found the official write-up to be quite a challenge, spending as much time on the history of PHP bugs and how this one was found as on how it works, and with key parts that are hard to follow unless…",
  "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."
}