CVE-2026-103896
The 10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a limited file write via path traversal in versions up to, and including, 2.34.5 This is due to the…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.46%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The 10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a limited file write via path traversal in versions up to, and including, 2.34.5 This is due to the OptimizerWebPageCache::get_cache_file_dir() function concatenating raw, unsanitized $_GET parameter names and values into the on-disk cache path, and the cache_content() sink calling mkdir() and file_put_contents() on the result with no realpath containment check — unlike the sibling delete_page_cache(), which does perform one. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary directories (mode 0777, recursively) outside the cache root and write a cached page into them. The write is LIMITED: the filename is always 'source.html', so the extension is fixed, and the content is the rendered page buffer rather than attacker-supplied data. PHP files cannot be written and code execution is not possible; the demonstrated impact is cache poisoning and arbitrary directory creation.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.46% probability · 40th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS moved from 0.5% on 16 October 2026 to 0.5% on 26 October 2026.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tenweb-speed-optimizer/tags/2.34.5/includes/WebPageCache/OptimizerWebPageCache.php#L190
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tenweb-speed-optimizer/tags/2.34.5/includes/WebPageCache/OptimizerWebPageCache.php#L205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tenweb-speed-optimizer/tags/2.34.5/includes/WebPageCache/OptimizerWebPageCache.php#L312
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tenweb-speed-optimizer/tags/2.34.5/includes/WebPageCache/OptimizerWebPageValidations.php#L299
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tenweb-speed-optimizer/tags/2.34.8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/83e672e7-2483-46e9-ae16-a9e7ccc4bcb8?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.