PHP Foundation operates with one full-time staff member amid critical global software flaws

Executive Director Elizabeth Barron revealed that the nonprofit PHP Foundation operates with only one full-time staff member and 14 part-time contractors despite supporting up to 70% of websites globally.

The foundation coordinated with outside researchers and firms such as OpenAI and cybersecurity company Wiz to investigate and release patches for two serious security flaws discovered this week.

Barron noted that while artificial intelligence tools help researchers find vulnerabilities, they have also nearly doubled maintainers' workloads by driving a surge in code change proposals.