Manga apps go offline for emergency PHP security maintenance

Magazine Pocket, K MANGA, MANGA Plus, Niconico Manga and BOOK☆WALKER all went offline for emergency maintenance on October 21, as several services cited urgent security updates tied to PHP vulnerabilities. According to animecorner.me, the outages affected both app and web access across the platforms.

Magazine Pocket took its app and web services offline from 10:30 p.m. JST, citing an urgent PHP security update. K MANGA began maintenance at the same time, citing a critical security update, and warned that new chapter releases could be delayed into October 22.

MANGA Plus entered maintenance from 9:00 p.m. JST but did not publicly state the reason. Niconico Manga had suspended all services from 7:00 p.m. JST, with maintenance planned until 10:00 a.m. on October 22, citing a serious software vulnerability. BOOK☆WALKER started emergency maintenance after finding a serious software vulnerability, said it had not been directly attacked, and expected services back by early October 22.

The maintenance followed the PHP development team's publication of security releases PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on October 21, addressing CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated 9.2 under CVSS 4.0.

The outage coincides with scheduled updates for The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity by Saka Mikami. K MANGA lists Chapter 205, titled "Saku's Answer," dated October 21, while Magazine Pocket lists the series' next Japanese update for October 22. Neither platform specifically named Chapter 205 in its maintenance notice. The previous chapter, Chapter 204, was released on October 8.