In fact, PHP 5.6 is the most commonly used version of PHP on WordPress, accounting for 37 percent of sites using the platform.

After PHP 5.6 became the most widely used PHP version back in the spring of 2017, PHP maintainers realized it would be a disaster if they stopped security updates right when PHP 5.6 became the ...

Zend PHP Long-Term Support (LTS), now available to GoDaddy Managed WordPress hosting providers, extends support for PHP versions – including access to CVE patches and bug fixes – by a minimum ...

The new version, PHP 8, promises to bring even more power and speed allowing for even better results. Unlike something like JavaScript, which is client-side, PHP is server-side.

WordPress itself is created with the PHP language. The current version of PHP is PHP 7x. The “x” is a reference to the different versions of PHP 7, which currently represent 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4.

PHP version 7.1 will reach EOL in December 2019. According to official WordPress statistics, 45.3% of WordPress publishers are running their sites on PHP versions 5.6 and 7.0.

The new versions of PHP are available now and the developers recommend that users upgrade as soon as possible. PHP versions 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 both contain the fix for the vulnerability.

PHP versions prior to 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 are vulnerable. The Imperva blog post said that an estimated 16 percent of public websites are running a vulnerable version.

Again an entirely OO interface is provided. PHP versions 5.1 and higher also bundle PHP Data Objects (PDO) with the main PHP distribution. If you need to communicate with several different database ...