CVE-2017-15291

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Published 2017-10-20 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wireless MAC Filtering page in TP-LINK TL-MR3220 wireless routers allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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-43023 webapps hardware text ยท 1 KB
Thiago Sena ยท 2017-10-12

TP-Link TL-MR3220 - Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
# Exploit Title: Vulnerability Xss - TP-LINK TL-MR3220
# Date: 12/10/2017
# Exploit Author: Thiago "THX" Sena
# Vendor Homepage: http://www.tp-link.com.br
# Version: TL-MR3220
# Tested on: Windows 10
# CVE : CVE-2017-15291

Vulnerabilty: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in TP-LINK TL-MR3220
cve: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15291
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PoC: 

0x01 - First you go to ( http://IP:PORT/ )

0x02 - In the 'Wireless MAC Filtering' tab. 

0x03 - Will add a new MAC Address.

0x04 - In 'Description' it will put the script ( <script>alert('XSS')</script> ) and complete the registration. 

0x05 - Xss Vulnerability

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References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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