OffSec Launches Free PHP2Shell Lab Following Critical Vulnerability Discovery

Source: The Manila times
Published on: 2026-10-28 20:52

New hands-on lab lets security practitioners explore PHP2Shell exploitation firsthand as AI-assisted research reshapes vulnerability discovery. NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OffSec today announced the release of a free, interactive hands-on lab in Proving Grounds Play (PG Play) to help security practitioners examine and defend against the critical "PHP2Shell" vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) firsthand. Developed in response to AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and active exploits targeting core PHP engines in the wild, the lab provides penetration testers and enterprise defenders with a safe, controlled environment to study the decade-old memory corruption flaws and implement timely server mitigations. The two critical flaws sat inside PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites whose server-side language is known, for more than a decade. Th...

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