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Normal configuration of a PHP server is to not run any PHP code and serve a static html file?

Where is all the evidence of exploits if most of the webs PHP servers were vulnerable?

This is a seperate chained exploit itself, seemingly executed by a nation stae. There are thousands of exploits infiltrating web servers around the world daily, and they arent php2shell.

You only care about this because it falls into a weird viral narrative about "AI saftey".

There's nothing separate about this.

Chained just means they used php2shell to run a local privilege escalation.

Was the exploit not dependent on a kernel exploit that was disclosed and patched in may, or am I just hallucinating?

Depends which part: php2shell does what it says on the tin: lets you run arbitrary commands as www-data.

If you want more than that you need to chain an LPE. Which are plenty these days sadly.

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