India, Oct. 22 -- A flaw discovered by artificial intelligence in the PHP programming language has triggered a wave of shutdowns of various websites and government servers across the world.

On Wednesday, cybersecurity experts discovered a pair of vulnerabilities, dubbed PHP2Shell, with the help of AI models.

PHP, which is a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a free, open-source, server-side scripting language designed specifically for web development. This programme serves as the invisible engine behind a website.

Created in 1995 and initially called 'Personal Home Page', PHP is known as the the server-side language and is responsible for assembling content and delivering pure HTML code to the respective browsers.

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