Government Websites Offline Over PHP Flaw

Government websites across Canada and the European Union were taken offline on October 21, 2026, as a precautionary measure. The action follows the discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which powers approximately 70 percent of public-facing websites.

The PHP Foundation released security patches for the flaws, which allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Affected systems will be restored once the updates are applied.