Because distributions usually ship with one PHP version and never upgrade it. Hopefully the distributions are backporting the upstream security patches.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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Themes too. It's very common for themes to only support one major version and then never get updated again.
So many 'web hosts' run really outdated PHP versions, it's quite frustrating to see.
What's the chance of exploiting this to patch it?