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Update Summary

PHP 8.3.31 delivers eight security fixes across FPM, MBString, PDO_Firebird, SOAP, and Standard, plus Windows Brotli and Zstandard support and OpenSSL 4.0 compatibility improvements.

Update Details

Security

  • FPM: Fixed XSS in the status endpoint (GHSA-7qg2-v9fj-4mwv, CVE-2026-6735).
  • MBString: Fixed a null pointer dereference in php_mb_check_encoding() through mb_ereg_search_init() (GHSA-wm6j-2649-pv75, CVE-2026-7259).
  • PDO_Firebird: Fixed SQL injection through NUL bytes in quoted strings (GHSA-w476-322c-wpvm, CVE-2025-14179).
  • SOAP: Fixed a stale SOAP_GLOBAL(ref_map) pointer with Apache Map (GHSA-85c2-q967-79q5, CVE-2026-6722).
  • SOAP: Fixed a use-after-free after header parsing failure with SOAP_PERSISTENCE_SESSION (GHSA-m33r-qmcv-p97q, CVE-2026-7261).
  • SOAP: Fixed an incorrect NULL check for Apache map values (GHSA-hmxp-6pc4-f3vv, CVE-2026-7262).
  • Standard: Fixed signed integer overflow in a character-array offset (GHSA-96wq-48vp-hh57, CVE-2026-7568).
  • Standard: Consistently pass unsigned char values to ctype.h functions (GHSA-m8rr-4c36-8gq4, CVE-2026-7258).

Bug Fixes

  • OpenSSL: Fixed compatibility issues with OpenSSL 4.0.

New Features

  • Curl: Added Brotli and Zstandard support on Windows.

Product Information

Vendor: PHP Group

Product: php

Product type: Software

Variant: php 8.3

Version: 8.3.31

Vendor information published: May 7, 2026

Original release notes: View on vendor site

Published on updatealert.io: Oct 27, 2026

Description: A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.