PHP’s declarative programming approach can help bridge the gap between low-code development and large-scale applications, allowing quick PHP code to be used as application modules and libraries.

Essentially the code was a backdoor that would have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code on any web server running this Trojanized version of PHP by simply sending requests to it with a ...

Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added a line that, if run by a PHP-powered website, would have allowed visitors with no authorization to execute code of their choice.