CVE-2017-11658: 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 bypas

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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 bypas

Package
wp-rocket (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
=1.3.0 or =1.3.1 or =1.3.2 or =1.3.3 or =1.3.4 or =1.3.5 or =1.3.6 or =1.3.7 or =2.0.0 or =2.0.1 or =2.0.2 or =2.0.3 or =2.0.4 or =2.0.5 or =2.1.0 or =2.1.1 or =2.2.0 or =2.2.1 or =2.2.2 or =2.2.3 or =2.3.0 or =2.3.1 or =2.3.2 or =2.3.3 or =2.3.4 or =2.3.5 or =2.3.6 or =2.3.7 or =2.3.8 or =2.3.9 or =2.3.10 or =2.3.11 or =2.4.0 or =2.4.1 or =2.4.2 or =2.5.0 or =2.5.1 or =2.5.2 or =2.5.3 or =2.5.4 or =2.5.5 or =2.5.6 or =2.5.7 or =2.5.8 or =2.5.9 or =2.5.10 or =2.5.11 or =2.5.12 or =2.6.0 or =2.6.1.1 or =2.6.2 or =2.6.3 or =2.6.4 or =2.6.5 or =2.6.6 or =2.6.7 or =2.6.8 or =2.6.9 or =2.6.10 or =2.6.11 or =2.6.12 or =2.6.13 or =2.6.14 or =2.6.15 or =2.6.16 or =2.7.0 or =2.7.1 or =2.7.2 or =2.7.3 or =2.7.4 or =2.8.0 or =2.8.1 or =2.8.2 or =2.8.3 or =2.8.4 or =2.8.5 or =2.8.6 or =2.8.7 or =2.8.8 or =2.8.9 or =2.8.10 or =2.8.11 or =2.8.12 or =2.8.13 or =2.8.14 or =2.8.15 or =2.8.16 or =2.8.17 or =2.8.18 or =2.8.19 or =2.8.20 or =2.8.21 or =2.8.23 or =2.9.0 or =2.9.1 or =2.9.2 or =2.9.3 or =2.9.4 or =2.9.5 or =2.9.6 or =2.9.7 or =2.9.8 or =2.9.8.1 or =2.9.9 or =2.9.10 or =2.9.11 or =2.10.0 or =2.10.1 or =2.10.2 or =2.10.3
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
high  CVSS 7.5
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 3% (88.6th percentile)
Published
2017-07-26
Source
nvd

References

CWE-22
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