30/10/2026
Last week, 70% of the web woke up with a monster in the cauldron. 🐸🎃
A serious security flaw was found in PHP, the code behind most of the world’s websites, including every WordPress site. Councils took their websites offline. Security officials told everyone else to fix it fast or do the same.
One of our favourite mottos at TLD is “Eat that frog” – do the unpleasant thing first. So we did.
➔ Within hours: every website we host protected
➔ Same afternoon: official fixes applied and every client emailed
➔ Next day: older websites upgraded one by one, logins and forms tested
➔ By Friday: every client who needs an upgrade contacted
By Thursday evening, fewer than one in ten UK PHP servers had been patched. Every website we host was already patched or safely locked down.
Not sure which PHP version your website is on? Send us a message and we’ll check for you.
Happy Halloween from all of us at TLD.
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