Ok, so we are talking about exploiting a Windows machine running a webserver serving PHP.
Just to calm people down, this doesn't mess with your computer just because it runs Windows and you happen to look at a php site.
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Thanks for the tl;dr! These news sites really need to calm down
Only on Windows machines serving PHP using Chinese and Japanese language locales. And it's already been patches some time ago. So the impact is pretty limited, yet a lot of news is being reported like the world is ending.
Damn, I only skimmed the article, this is completely blown out of proportion
Desperate grab for clicks, this is using a php exploit on a windows webserver.
You know, shit that happens a thousand times a damned day