Cloudflare deploys default WAF rules for two PHP flaws nine hours before disclosure
Cloudflare enabled default WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers against two PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known as php2shell. The protections went live roughly nine hours before the flaws were publicly disclosed by Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI and Quarkslab.
- The flaws are tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
- Mitigations apply by default to free and paid tiers
- WAF rules went live about nine hours before disclosure
- The flaws were disclosed by Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI and Quarkslab
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