[AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months
GPT-5.6 Sol discovered critical PHP vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the web via OpenAI's Patch the Planet program
“our critical software is generally getting the biggest security audit it has ever had in human history”
OpenAI's Patch the Planet program used GPT-5.6 Sol to independently discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP, affecting roughly 70% of the web — a finding also made concurrently by Google Cloud's Wiz team using Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol. The coordinated two-month disclosure across the PHP ecosystem is being compared in severity to log4shell and Heartbleed. This is a landmark demonstration of AI-assisted security research producing real-world critical infrastructure impact.