CVE-2009-1561

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administration.cgi on the Cisco Linksys WRT54GC router with firmware 1.05.7 allows remote attackers to hijack the intranet connectivity of arbitrary users for requests that change the administrator password via the sysPasswd and sysConfirmPasswd parameters.

Affected products

Cisco Wrt54Gc: 1.05.7

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-04/0198.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0904-exploits/linksysadmin-passwd.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/34805
http://www.falandodeseguranca.com/?p=17
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34616
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1172
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-04/0198.html
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0904-exploits/linksysadmin-passwd.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/34805
http://www.falandodeseguranca.com/?p=17
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34616
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1172

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