No mass exploitation yet of disclosed PHP bug, as debate hits model cyber capability thresholds

xeophon · x · 2026-10-22

xeophon notes the PHP2Shell patch shipped just yesterday and open models at 'GPT-5.6 Sol level' now exist, yet no large-scale exploitation of the disclosed bug has been observed. The thread probes which is the weakest model (open or closed) capable of finding the bug and producing a POC, and questions whether 'a small number of defenders with cyber access' can ever patch everything.

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