But, that is hardly surprising as with source code version control systems like Git, it is possible to sign-off a commit as coming from anybody else [1, 2] locally and then upload the spoofed ...

The open-source server-side language is commonly used in web development. The code change was first noticed by contributors Markus Staab, Michael Voříšek, and Jake Birchall.

Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added a line that, if run by a PHP-powered website, would have allowed visitors with no authorization to execute code of their choice.