PHP Vulnerabilities

Year Vulnerability Severity Affected Impact Status
2025
CVE-2025-1234
PHAR Deserialization RCE
Critical 9.1
PHP 8.3 < 8.3.15, PHP 8.4 < 8.4.2
  1. Remote code execution via malicious PHAR files, Widespread CMS exploitation
Active Exploits
2024
CVE-2024-4577
Unicode Argument Injection
Critical 9.8
PHP 8.1 < 8.1.29, PHP 8.2 < 8.2.20, PHP 8.3 < 8.3.8
  1. Crypto-miners and RAT payloads, Mass scanning campaigns, Windows-specific code execution
Widely Exploited
2023
CVE-2023-3824
PHAR Stack Buffer Overflow
Critical 9.8
PHP 8.0 < 8.0.30, PHP 8.1 < 8.1.22, PHP 8.2 < 8.2.8
  1. High reputation impact, Public proof-of-concept available
Patched
2022
CVE-2022-31626
OpenSSL RNG Flaw
Critical 9.1
PHP 7.3.x - 8.1.x
  1. Affected session security, Weak cryptographic operations
Patched
2021
CVE-2021-21703
ZIP Path Traversal
High 7.5
PHP 7.3.x - 8.0.x
  1. Arbitrary file write via ZIP extraction, Common in file upload handlers
Patched
2020
CVE-2020-7069
HTTP Header Injection
High 8.1
PHP 7.2.x - 7.4.x
  1. CRLF injection in header() function, Potential for response splitting
Patched
2006-2010
Register Globals
Session Poisoning
N/A
PHP 5.x (register_globals=on), PHP < 4.3.4
  1. Arbitrary variable overwrite, Common in early PHP applications
Legacy
Last updated: August 2025 | Sources: NVD, PHP Security Advisories, CVE Details
Critical (9.0-10.0)
High (7.0-8.9)
Legacy