As critical PHP CVEs hit two-thirds of the web, devs joke: compile to WASM to dodge them

MickeySteamboat · x · 2026-10-23

Amid the critical PHP flaws affecting the code behind roughly two-thirds of the web, a developer jokes that "compiling to WASM is one of the most effective safeguards in cybersec history" and urges everyone to move to PHP WASM servers to be unaffected by the CVE — classic incident gallows humor.

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