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Wenqi Feng

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
1 paper
Web and mobile security · 50% Network security · 50%
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Software testing · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Network security › intrusion detection and prevention
intrusion detection
0.912025
WAFBooster: Automatic Boosting of WAF Security Against Mutated Malicious Payloads · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025
Web and mobile security
web application firewall
0.912025
WAFBooster: Automatic Boosting of WAF Security Against Mutated Malicious Payloads · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025
Software testing
fuzzing
0.312025
WAFBooster: Automatic Boosting of WAF Security Against Mutated Malicious Payloads · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

shadow model · 1.7regular expression matching · 1.7payload generation · 1.7clustering · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 WAFBooster: Automatic Boosting of WAF Security Against Mutated Malicious Payloads
abstract
Web application firewall (WAF) examines malicious traffic to and from a web application via a set of security rules. It plays a significant role in securing Web applications against web attacks. However, as web attacks grow in sophistication, it is becoming increasingly difficult for WAFs to block the mutated malicious payloads designed to bypass their defenses. In response to this critical security issue, we have developed a novel learning-based framework calledWAFBooster, designed to unveil potential bypasses in WAF detections and suggest rules to fortify their security. Using a combination of shadow models and payload generation techniques, we can identify malicious payloads and remove or modify them as needed.WAFBoostergenerates signatures for these malicious payloads using advanced clustering and regular expression matching techniques to repair any security gaps we uncover. In our comprehensive evaluation of eight real-world WAFs,WAFBoosterimproved the true rejection rate of mutated malicious payloads from 21% to 96%, with no false rejections.WAFBoosterachieves a false acceptance rate 3× lower than State-of-the-Art methods for generating malicious payloads. WithWAFBooster, we have taken a step forward in securing web applications against the ever-evolving threats.
Cong Wu 0003, Jing Chen 0003, Simeng Zhu, Wenqi Feng, Kun He 0008, Ruiying Du, Yang Xiang 0001
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.4