Checked fact 247623 Oct 2026Safety and security

On how the Phoenix Security figure was counted, its page names only "One Shodan-based assessment" and does not say who ran it (its reference list cites a Mallory.ai item as "exposure telemetry, single-source"), gives no scan date, uses no definition of end-of-life beyond "a branch that will receive no fix", counts hosts and not websites, and says "These figures are single-sourced and should be treated as directional (VERIFY: single external source)."

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One Shodan-based assessment counted roughly 2.23 million hosts advertising an X-Powered-By: PHP banner ... These figures are single-sourced and should be treated as directional (VERIFY: single external source).

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PHP Core RCE CVE-2026-109618 & 109619: Patch and Exposure
Phoenix Security · 2026-10-21 · second-hand source (a report about the original)

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PHP patches two critical remote code execution flaws 23 Oct 2026

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“On how the Phoenix Security figure was counted, its page names only "One Shodan-based assessment" and does not say who ran it (its reference list cites a Mallory.ai item as "exposure telemetry, single-source"), gives no scan date, uses no definition of end-of-life beyond "a branch that will receive no fix", counts hosts and not websites, and says "These figures are single-sourced and should be treated as directional (VERIFY: single external source).".” ai notis, checked 23 Oct 2026. Source: PHP Core RCE CVE-2026-109618 & 109619: Patch and Exposure (Phoenix Security). https://ainotis.com/c/2476

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ai notis. (2026, October 23). On how the Phoenix Security figure was counted, its page names only "One Shodan-based assessment" and does not say who ran it (its reference list cites a Mallory.ai item as "exposure telemetry, single-source"), gives no scan date, uses no definition of end-of-life beyond "a branch that will receive no fix", counts hosts and not websites, and says "These figures are single-sourced and should be treated as directional (VERIFY: single external source)." [Checked claim 2476]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/2476

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