A security researcher has kicked off a project to put the spotlight on flaws in the widely used PHP scripting language.
The initiative, dubbed "Month of PHP Bugs," started on Thursday. Five vulnerabilities have so far been disclosed, several of which could allow a system running PHP to be compromised, according to the project Web site.
"This initiative is an effort to improve the security of PHP," Stefan Esser, a noted PHP security expert, wrote on the project Web site. The bug releases will focus on vulnerabilities in the PHP core, not on problems in the PHP language that might result in insecure PHP applications, he wrote.
The Month of PHP Bugs is backed by the Hardened-PHP Project, which was launched by three German security researchers in 2004. "You should consider the Month of PHP Bugs a result report for just another audit we did on PHP," Esser wrote.
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