Urgent security fix issued for code vital to estimated 70% of all websites

PHP may not be a household name, but the programming language, released over 30 years ago, powers a large share of websites and web applications. Nearly 70% of the internet is estimated to use PHP, including WordPress, which is used for more than 40% of websites .

Now the PHP development team is urging users to update immediately after fixing two critical vulnerabilities , rated 9.2 out of 10 in terms of danger, that if exploited could allow attackers to take over internet servers.