# NCSC-NL/php2shell

> Operational information on the critical PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 allowing unauthenticated RCE: patching guidance, detection material and affected software inventories.

- Magnitude: 6.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 131 total · +15 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–04:07 UTC, ≈ 116 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Python · License: EUPL-1.2 · Created: 2026-10-21 · Last push: 2026-10-21
- GitHub: https://github.com/NCSC-NL/php2shell · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/NCSC-NL/php2shell

## Useful for

- Check PHP versions on internet-facing servers and update to fixed releases
- Look up third-party products and images bundling PHP in the repository inventories
- Apply temporary mitigations when patching is not possible and monitor logs

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:37–04:07: 116 → 131 stars (+15). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +115 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 131 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #168.
- About 53 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @rescenic (1,338 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: 31
- Issues and pull requests: 10
- Watchers: 8
- Average over the last week: 123 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-21 … 2026-10-22: 131, 15

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #168

## Similar by description

1. **eness/php2shell-CVE-2026-109618-CVE-2026-109619-PoC** — 7.9 · Early signal · Security · Shell · +72 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–04:07 UTC, ≈ 573 by evening
   Repository with a PoC exploit for two critical RCE flaws in the PHP core (php2shell), plus detection and patching guidance. Intended for security researchers and administrators.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/eness/php2shell-CVE-2026-109618-CVE-2026-109619-PoC.md
2. **ikow/php2shell-poc** — 8.3 · Early signal · Security · Python · +151 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–04:07 UTC, ≈ 1,018 by evening
   A proof-of-concept toolkit for two PHP pre-auth RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) affecting PHP 5.4.0 through 8.5.11, with exploits, detection rules, and a lab environment.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ikow/php2shell-poc.md

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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 2026-10-22 04:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.