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# LFI and RFI

Prophaze WAF can prevent local and remote file execution exploits by the following ways

* Block RFI attack on application which allows attackers to include a file Exploiting dynamic file inclusion feature
* Blocks URL in request argument
* Blocks PHP include() function
* Blocks requests ends with question mark
* Path traversal and Restricted file access