India, Oct. 30 -- India is seeing a higher impact rate from PHP2Shell attacks than the global average. Check Point Research puts the figure at 14% of organisations in India, compared with 10% worldwide. The gap may look small, but the issue reaches far beyond individual websites. The vulnerabilities sit inside the PHP engine, which supports a wide range of websites, online stores and enterprise applications.

For IT teams, the bigger concern is how many systems may be exposed-and how quickly they can be found and fixed.

The two critical vulnerabilities allow attackers to run code remotely on affected servers without logging in. Successful exploitation could lead to data theft, attacks on connected systems or service outages.

The risk co...