Gcore Makes Enterprise Security Bundle Free for Public Agencies Until End of the Year
Contern, Luxembourg, October 22nd, 2026, CyberNewswire
Gcore is offering its WAAP Enterprise plan free of charge to any government body or public agency until December 31, 2026. The offer follows the php2shell vulnerabilities that forced public websites offline across Europe earlier this week.
Gcore WAAP blocks the php2shell attack path (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) by default for all customers. Sites taken offline can be placed behind the service and brought back online while patching continues. The two PHP vulnerabilities, rated CVSS 9.2, allow unauthenticated remote code execution before any application code runs. Government portals in the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and France, along with hospitals, schools, and commercial sites, were taken offline this week on the advice of CERT-EU and national agencies.
Going offline was the right call while no fix existed. Patching large estates takes days. A filtering layer that blocks the attack pattern lets a site run while that work...
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