Bypassing Local File Inclusion Mitigation in WP Rocket Plugin 2.9.3

CVE-2017-11658 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

In the WP Rocket plugin 2.9.3 for WordPress, the Local File Inclusion mitigation technique is to trim traversal characters (..) -- however, this is insufficient to stop remote attacks and can be bypassed by using 0x00 bytes, as demonstrated by a .%00.../.%00.../ attack.

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