This post is likely to be updated as the situation evolves and more information is available.
Site owners are responsible for maintaining the security of their hosting platform
PHP has announced a critical PHP security release for Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. We recommend that all Drupal site owners reserve time to ensure their PHP version is updated as soon as the release is available.
It is the policy of the Drupal Security Team that site owners are responsible for monitoring and maintaining the security of third-party libraries and any non-Drupal components of the application and hosting platform. In rare cases, the Drupal Security Team will post an informational public service announcement (PSA) such as this one, but the remit of the Drupal Security Team remains limited to code hosted on Drupal.org’s systems. Previous PSAs on third-party code in the Drupal ecosystem include:
