PHPLens – PHP Patch Check von Hani

PHPLens tells you, as you browse, whether the server behind a website runs a PHP version that is unpatched against CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619 (session.upload_progress use-after-free, unauthenticated remote code execution, CVSS 9.2, exploited in the wild) or a PHP branch that no longer receives security fixes.

HOW IT WORKS

• Reads the response headers your browser already received (Server, X-Powered-By, cookies, CMS headers) and a few hints in the page (generator tag, .php URLs, visible PHP errors, phpinfo pages).
• Compares the advertised version with the patched releases (8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, 8.5.12) and the latest release per branch, refreshed daily from php.net.
• Never probes, never sends payloads, never tries to trigger anything. The only request it can make to a site is one HEAD request for the page you are already on, when the passive check saw no version; you can switch that off.

WHAT YOU SEE

• A coloured toolbar badge: red = unpatched or end-of-life, amber = behind the latest release or a distro build that may hide backported fixes, grey = PHP detected but version hidden, green = patched.
• A popup with the evidence, the advisory, a confidence rating and advice.
• A one-line notification and a centered in-page dialog when a site is unsafe.
• Per-site silencing: snooze for an hour, a day, a week, or ignore for good.

READ THE VERDICT CORRECTLY

• A hidden version (expose_php=Off) is reported as unverified, not as safe.
• Distribution builds (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL) backport fixes without changing the version number, so they are shown as Caution by default.
• Proxies and CDNs can strip or cache headers; the popup says when a result came from a cache and lowers the confidence.

AFTER INSTALLING ON FIREFOX

Open the add-on's Permissions tab and allow "Access your data for all websites", otherwise headers cannot be observed.

PRIVACY

No accounts, no analytics, no telemetry. Nothing about the sites you visit is sent anywhere. Policy: https://haniamin90.github.io/phplens/PRIVACY

Open source (MIT): https://github.com/Haniamin90/phplens