@gianpaolo.cipicchia
For my personal experience, with various hosting, dir and file chmod permission is not problem ... W3TC work perfectly with dir 705 and file 604 chmod permission, on various situations.
@Frederick Townes
1 - What happens if the same malicious script used to exploit db cache is applied to object cache with W3 total Cache 0.9.2.5?
2 - What happens if the same malicious script used to exploit db cache is applied to advanced cache (disk and enanched mode) with W3 total Cache 0.9.2.5?