PHP has existed for over 20 years and there have been many versions over the years. WordPress is ending support for PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0 in December 2018. While the change won’t prevent ...

The WordPress open-source content management system (CMS) will show warnings in its backend admin panel if the site runs on top of an outdated PHP version. The current plan is to have the warnings ...

WordPress is updating soon to version 5.6 which aims to be compatible with PHP 8. However, WordPress cautioned that it should be considered “beta-compatible” and explained why upgrading to PHP ...

PHP is the underlying scripting language that WordPress runs on. The most current version is PHP 7.3.7. PHP is continually updated to make it more efficient and to patch security issues.

But on December 31, 2018, security support for PHP 5.6.x will officially cease, marking the end of all support for any version of the ancient PHP 5.x branch. This means that starting with next ...

This is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. For version 3.0.2, the database version (db_version in wp_options) remained at 15477.

Among the key new features in the release is a check to warn users if they are running older, unsupported versions of the PHP programming language that is needed to operate WordPress.

PHP Everywhere is a plugin that allows WordPress ... can be exploited by contributors or subscribers, affecting all WordPress versions from 2.0.3 and below. While the last two flaws aren't easily ...

WordPress has released version 6.4.2 that addresses a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that could be chained with another flaw to allow attackers run arbitrary PHP code on the target website.