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OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Sol helped find the PHP flaws now shaking the internet

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OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Sol helped find the PHP flaws now shaking the internet

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OpenAI says its AI models helped uncover the critical PHP security flaws that have websites across the internet scrambling. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said it had spent the past two months leading a coalition of PHP maintainers, security researchers, and security companies to deal with the vulnerabilities, now nicknamed "PHP2SHELL." In its own Wednesday blog post, the PHP foundation thanked OpenAI, among other industry partners and cybersecurity researchers. The newly exposed flaws could allow attackers to take over servers running PHP, the programming language behind a large share of the web. OpenAI called the bugs one of the most impactful security problems in recent memory.

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