Cloudflare CEO Flags Millions of PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts as PHP Patches Four Branches

The scale of attempted exploitation reported by Cloudflare's CEO underscores how quickly proof-of-concept code for unauthenticated remote code execution gets weaponized, and why patch adoption speed is the real risk variable here. The exposure sits with operators of unpatched web servers running any of the affected PHP branches, not with end users. Whether the attempted volume translates into a meaningful population of compromised hosts, and how rapidly the four patched branches are adopted, is the open question worth tracking.