WordPress support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0 scheduled to end in December 2018.

After PHP 5.6 became the most widely used PHP version back in the spring of 2017, PHP maintainers realized it would be a disaster if they stopped security updates right when PHP 5.6 became the ...

PHP versions 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 both contain the fix for the vulnerability. “We’ve tested this and have confirmed that the query parameters are passed to the php5-cgi binary in this configuration.

The long-term plan is to have PHP 7.0 become the minimum PHP version needed to run a WordPress site by December 2019. Yesterday's announcement from the WordPress team came as a surprise for the ...

PHP version 7.1 will reach EOL in December 2019. According to official WordPress statistics, 45.3% of WordPress publishers are running their sites on PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.. An additional 16.3% ...

PHP 5.6 and 7.0, the scripting language that underlies 57.1% of all WordPress sites will stop receiving security updates in December 2018. No security patches will be issued for those versions of ...

The most recent version, 8.3, arrived late last year as the latest in a string of annual releases. Where developers have run up against limitations of PHP, they have successfully found workarounds.

A new PHP for Windows remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been disclosed, impacting all releases since version 5.x, potentially impacting a massive number of servers worldwide.