On October 25, Akismet turns 21. We’re celebrating with a few new guests: an official Drupal module, a PHP SDK, and another year of improvements to our WordPress plugin. Spam still isn’t on the list. Akismet launched in October 2005 to help people spend less time dealing with comment spam and more time enjoying their…

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Howdy, Before anything else: check which version of PHP your sites run. On October 21, the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, and they affect any server running a PHP application, not only WordPress. You’ll find your version under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server in your WordPress admin. If you…

Howdy, Before anything else: check which version of PHP your sites run. On October 21, the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, and they affect any server running a PHP application, not only WordPress. You’ll find your version under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server in your WordPress admin. If you…

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Das PHP-Projekt hat ein Sicherheitsupdate veröffentlicht, das zwei kritische Sicherheitslücken in PHP behebt. Aufgrund der Schwere der Probleme empfehlen wir Website-Betreibenden, ihre PHP-Installationen umgehend zu aktualisieren. Möglicherweise arbeitet dein Hoster bereits an einem PHP-Update und hat Regeln für eine Web Application Firewall (WAF) eingerichtet, um die Schwachstellen abzumildern. Du solltest trotzdem bei deinem Hoster nach…

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The PHP project has announced a security release that fixes two critical security vulnerabilities discovered in PHP. Due to the critical severity of the issues, site owners are encouraged to immediately update their installations of PHP. Your web host may already be working to update PHP and put web application firewall (WAF) rules in place…