PHP Foundation Underfunded, Staff One | JQJO

The PHP Foundation, which supports a language used by up to seventy percent of websites, operates with a single full‑time staff member and fourteen part‑time contractors. Executive Director Elizabeth Barron said the nonprofit relies on donations and grants, with board members volunteering unpaid. The foundation collaborates with researchers and companies such as OpenAI, Wiz, and Calif to investigate security flaws and coordinate patches. Recent discoveries of two serious PHP vulnerabilities prompted a global effort to secure sites, yet the foundation reported no evidence of exploitation before patches were applied. Artificial intelligence helped find the flaws but also increased maintainers’ workload, as the project receives nearly twice as many proposed code changes as a year ago.