Outage report · Partial outage
Liquid Web outage on Oct 21, 2026
PHP Security Vulnerability Assessment (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)
What happened
Liquid Web reported a partial outage starting Oct 21, 2026, 15:39 UTC, affecting Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS Hosting, CPanel, InterWorx, Plesk. The incident is still open on the vendor's status page.
- It was the 3rd longest of 20 significant outages Liquid Web reported in the 12 months up to it.
- Liquid Web had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Liquid Web
The security updates for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 have been rolled out across our hosting fleet. Our teams continue to monitor the environment. If your site uses an end-of-life PHP version (PHP 8.1 or older), we strongly recommend moving it to PHP 8.2 or newer. Some older PHP versions no longer receive security fixes from their vendors. To check which PHP version your site is running, see: https://www.liquidweb.com/help-docs/performance/website-optimization/how-to-use-a-phpinfo-file/ If you have questions about your server, please contact our Support team.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Liquid Web started after this incident, so this report is based on Liquid Web's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Liquid Web's overall reliability
Liquid Web has a reliability score of 31.8/100, with 94.03% effective uptime and 20 incidents over the last 90 days.
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