SuPHP has no upstream maintainer and thus is not actively having bugs and security issues addressed. Its security track record is pretty good. The worst so far has been privilege escalation to the httpd user, which is no worse than not using SuPHP. It is advisable to convert your system to PHP-FPM if possible. The port maintainer's thoughts on sandboxing PHP are here: http://blog.shatow.net/post/2013-07-17-sandboxing-php-part1.markdown An overview of using PHP-FPM for application sandboxing is here: http://blog.shatow.net/post/2013-11-27-sandboxing-php-part2.markdown