php-safe
An unofficial PHP fork with security enhancements and patches for numerous known CVEs.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 77%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Similar launches
See all 1480 similar launches →Could you build this?
No This is a fork of the PHP interpreter, which is a C codebase, and it requires auditing and patching real CVEs. That takes deep C, compiler, and security-research expertise that vibe coding cannot substitute for.
What it would actually take: A real version means forking the PHP C source, tracking upstream security advisories, and backporting or writing patches for memory-safety and logic bugs in the interpreter, SAPI, and extensions. It also needs a regression test suite and fuzzing infrastructure, plus experienced C and PHP internals engineers to maintain it credibly.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1146 of 1481 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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- php2shell · github · 2026-10-21 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- vivace · github · 2026-09-10 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- php-cve-2026-109618-109619-backports · github · 2026-10-21 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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More details
- External ID
- 1428916925
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- php-safe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.23
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- unofficial php fork with cve security patches
- Manually corrected
- No