it’s a lot more than wordpress…
Comment on PSA: PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently (today 14:00 UTC)
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Wordpress sites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
rozodru@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Seriously though, how quickly do you expect patches to be available for WordPress? I’ve got one WordPress site that I made years ago for a friend’s business. I pop in on it and update stuff every few months.
Should I take it down?
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
it’s PHP that needs the patches. Yes you should take the site down until PHP has been patched.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah it’s self hosted, thanks
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
depends. do you want to deal with a simple patch in 24 hours or do you want to rebuild an entire legacy system from nothing (assuming you don’t take proper backups).
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How dare you (correctly) assume I haven’t taken proper backups!
Jk lol
I do have a couple backups I made a few months ago. Never tested restoring them, so I don’t count them as “real”.
I’m hosting on namecheap servers, using their cpanel and stuff. So I don’t have the option of installing my own PHP version, just selecting theirs.
But apparently they had some mitigations in place before updating, and then they got us updated.