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Laravel 13.26 landed a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/elementor-pro-rce-hits-wordpress-laravel-ships-read-through-filesystem-migrations-plasylbd9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PlASYlbD9.png og:image:alt: Elementor Pro RCE hits WordPress, Laravel ships read-through filesystem migrations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Elementor Pro RCE hits WordPress, Laravel ships read-through filesystem migrations **[PHP Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/php_digest)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary An unauthenticated RCE in Elementor Pro's file upload handling is the week's clearest fire drill, affecting every version up to 4.2.1. Laravel 13.26 landed a clever but sharp-edged read-through filesystem driver for zero-downtime storage migrations, plus debounced queued listeners and Queue::forward(). PHP 8.6 locked its feature set at soft freeze, so library maintainers should be testing against Beta 1 now. Symfony had a quiet maintenance week but kept pushing its issue-first, AI-agent contribution experiment further into the open. ## Content **TLDR:** An unauthenticated RCE in Elementor Pro's file upload handling is the week's clearest fire drill, affecting every version up to 4.2.1. Laravel 13.26 landed a clever but sharp-edged read-through filesystem driver for zero-downtime storage migrations, plus debounced queued listeners and Queue::forward(). PHP 8.6 locked its feature set at soft freeze, so library maintainers should be testing against Beta 1 now. Symfony had a quiet maintenance week but kept pushing its issue-first, AI-agent contribution experiment further into the open. --- ## Elementor Pro file upload bug allows unauthenticated RCE CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS 9.0) let attackers slip a PHP file past the extension blocklist by submitting two file parts on one File Upload field, one with an empty filename, confusing Elementor's validation loop. Fixed in 4.2.2 on August 19, but patching doesn't remove anything already dropped on your server. If you run Elementor Pro forms with multiple file upload enabled, go check wp-content/uploads/elementor/forms/ for PHP files that shouldn't be there, even if you've already updated. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/FNHPdlRAu) ## Laravel's read-through filesystem driver ships, with a delete-resurrection footgun Laravel 13.26 added a read-through disk driver that pairs a primary disk with a fallback, so reads fall back and quietly promote files to primary while writes and deletes only touch primary. That's genuinely useful for gradual S3-to-R2 style migrations without a bulk sync window, but because deletes never touch the fallback, deleting a promoted file doesn't kill it: the next read resurrects it from the old bucket. Same release also brought debounced queued event listeners via #[DebounceFor] and Queue::forward() for rerouting queues without touching job classes. [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DbmSXRJJ9&id=dWSybWXb0&id=a1MN3fMe0&id=eViP2uLEx) ## PHP 8.6 hits soft feature freeze Beta 1 landed August 13, locking in partial function application, a new clamp() function, closure caching for stateless closures, and floating-point endianness modifiers for pack()/unpack(). A list() reference assignment RFC failed on a 21-21 tie. RC1 is targeted for September 24 and GA for November 19, so now's the time to test libraries against Beta 1 and check the deprecation list against your codebase. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/r7m6Wq3xW) ## Socket's PHP and Composer scanning hits beta amid rising Packagist supply-chain attacks Socket moved PHP/Composer support from experimental to beta and made reachability analysis generally available for Team plans and above, timed against a real string of incidents: a Mini Shai-Hulud variant jumping from npm to Packagist via a compromised Intercom package, a malicious postinstall hook in 700+ GitHub repos, and trojanized packages disguised as Laravel utilities. Precomputed Reachability claims to flag around 60% of transitive vulnerabilities as irrelevant using just the Composer manifest, and Full Application Reachability claims up to 90% false-positive elimination by tracing actual call paths through Laravel and Symfony's dynamic instantiation. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/C8MMGCbLd) --- ## Also notable - **Mago 1.0 stable release:** The Rust-based PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer hit 1.0.0 and finishes a check on a 500-file Laravel project in under a second versus 8-12 seconds for phpcs. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/6ol8DQjVJ) - **WordPress 7.1 ships August 19:** The release adds mention notifications, shareable revision links, responsive block styling, and a new Abilities API for AI agent integration, while Gutenberg 23.8's List View rework cut select-all time on a 1,000-paragraph post from 16.8 seconds to 0.4 seconds. [Read more](https://daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=7NWAD50uV&id=HfDKDBln3) - **php-judy 2.6.0 hardens a 20-year-old C library with AI-assisted review:** Using multiple AI agents to benchmark and patch libJudy uncovered real upstream bugs including a GCC undefined-behavior key-loss defect, delivering 12-32% latency reductions on lookups and up to 22.7x memory savings versus native PHP arrays. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/iCbxPI9ZX) - **Laravel AI SDK 0.11 adds run-level observability:** The release threads a correlation ID through entire agent runs, adds hosted tool search for OpenAI and Anthropic to avoid shipping full tool catalogs on every request, and expands failover to cover 502/504/520/522/524 errors, shipping August 19 with 36 merged PRs. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/2wS8tT7Cm) - **PHP Foundation's Ecosystem Security Team scans 300+ top Composer packages:** Backed by an Alpha-Omega grant and led by Volker Dusch as a six-month AI Security Engineer in Residence, the team used AI models for vulnerability discovery and reproducer generation across the most-downloaded packages and nearly all major frameworks, with humans still handling triage and disclosure. [Read more](https://daily.dev/posts/ZId1nWusP) ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ajaychoudhary80** · 1 upvotes > The Elementor RCE is the real headline—WordPress teams should treat patching as urgent. --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/elementor-pro-rce-hits-wordpress-laravel-ships-read-through-filesystem-migrations-plasylbd9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/elementor-pro-rce-hits-wordpress-laravel-ships-read-through-filesystem-migrations-plasylbd9","headline":"Elementor Pro RCE hits WordPress, Laravel ships read-through filesystem migrations","text":"An unauthenticated RCE in Elementor Pro's file upload handling is the week's clearest fire drill, affecting every version up to 4.2.1. 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