Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers
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#5Peak rank
2Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 29, 2026First seen
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- 279
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- 138
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- 882542F3884314B
- Posted
- Oct 29, 2026
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- dreamgroup.com
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Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 62 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #5 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 19:37 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 04:07 UTC.
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> the attacker chained in a second exploit: a Linux kernel vulnerability in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem Linux seems to have a huge attack surface that doesn't necessarily need to be there for every user/server. E.g. this came out today: CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation [1]. I just…
> A1 — Memory Exhaustion (~383MB): I'm actually somewhat surprised at the clumsiness here. I'm a complete amateur that had DeepSeek build a PHP2Shell exploit, and once the stealmybitcoin site went up and set an upload limit, i had DeepSeek try to shrink/amplify it. DeepSeek couldn't find anything but a 2x reduction,…
I thought we were smug about how hard it was to make a working exploit for this?
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Is Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 30, 04:07 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers reached?
#5 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 19:37 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (62 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
279 points and 138 comments; submitted by 882542F3884314B on Oct 29, 2026.