# assetnote/php2shell-scanner

> Python CLI scanner for detecting php2shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) in PHP applications. It sends multipart probes and flags targets based on memory-exhaustion errors, PHP-FPM worker failures, or known unpatched PHP versions.

- Magnitude: 5.6 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 178 total · +53 stars measured 2026-10-22, 12:09–15:08 UTC, ≈ 72 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Python · Created: 2026-10-22 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/assetnote/php2shell-scanner · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/assetnote/php2shell-scanner

## Useful for

- Scan a list of hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
- Test a specific path on a server using --path
- Save scan results to JSON for reporting

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 12:09–15:08: 125 → 178 stars (+53). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +72 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 178 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 88 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @im-hanzou (1,828 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: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 72 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 28

## Stars per day, last 1 day (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-22 … 2026-10-22: 53

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ikow/php2shell-poc.md
2. **9bie/php2shell-bypass-aslr-exp** — 7.7 · Early signal · Security · Python · +440 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–15:07 UTC, ≈ 686 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/9bie/php2shell-bypass-aslr-exp.md
3. **eness/php2shell-CVE-2026-109618-CVE-2026-109619-PoC** — 7.5 · Early signal · Security · Shell · +247 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–15:22 UTC, ≈ 426 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/eness/php2shell-CVE-2026-109618-CVE-2026-109619-PoC.md
4. **openai/php2shell-checker** — 7.4 · Early signal · Security · JavaScript · +346 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–15:07 UTC, ≈ 543 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/openai/php2shell-checker.md
5. **cloudflare/security-audit-skill** — 6.8 · Breakout · Security · JavaScript · +2,048 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–15:07 UTC, ≈ 3,129 by evening
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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 15:23 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.