# HOSTED-POWER/php_uploadprogress_guard

> A PHP extension that protects unpatched PHP against the php2shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618/109619) by mirroring the official fix, and adds protections against a unserialize() use-after-free and SimpleXML crashes. For hosting and server admins running PHP 5.4–8.5.

- Magnitude: 4.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 117 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-23, 02:43–04:48 UTC, ≈ 38 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: C · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-21 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/HOSTED-POWER/php_uploadprogress_guard · Homepage: https://www.hosted-power.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/HOSTED-POWER/php_uploadprogress_guard

## Useful for

- Protect an unpatched PHP server from RCE via session upload-progress
- Install the extension on cPanel EA4 or DirectAdmin without rebuilding PHP
- Close the unserialize() use-after-free and SimpleXML crash on PHP 8.4/8.5

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-23 (UTC), 02:43–04:48: 115 → 117 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +38 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 117 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #198.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @NewEraCracker (474 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 9
- Issues and pull requests: 19
- Watchers: 5
- Average over the last week: 52 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v3.2.3 (2026-10-22)

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-21 … 2026-10-23: 63, 54, 2

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #198

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-23 04:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.