CVE-2008-6823
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the management interface on the A-LINK WL54AP3 and WL54AP2 access points…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the management interface on the A-LINK WL54AP3 and WL54AP2 access points before firmware 1.4.2-eng1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) modify the network configuration via certain parameters to goform/formWanTcpipSetup or (2) modify credentials via certain parameters to goform/formPasswordSetup.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- A-Link WL54AP3 / WL54AP2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6899remote, hardwarepublished 31 Oct 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6899 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- wl54ap3-wl54ap2-domain-name-xss(46255) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- wl54ap3-wl54ap2-interface-csrf(46256) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 49466 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 32008 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 49465 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20081031 A-Link WL54AP3 and WL54AP2 CSRF+XSS vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 6899 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 32421 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.louhinetworks.fi/advisory/alink_081028.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.a-link.com/WL54AP3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-6783 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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