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CVE-2019-6487

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

TP-Link WDR Series devices through firmware v3 (such as TL-WDR5620 V3.0) are affected by command injection (after login) leading to remote code execution, because shell metacharacters can be included in the weather get_weather_observe citycode field.

Affected products

• TP-Link Tl-Wdr3500 Firmware: through 3.0
• TP-Link Tl-Wdr3600 Firmware: through 3.0
• TP-Link Tl-Wdr4300 Firmware: through 3.0
• TP-Link Tl-Wdr4900 Firmware: through 3.0
• TP-Link Tl-Wdr5620 Firmware: through 3.0

References

• https://github.com/0xcc-Since2016/TP-Link-WDR-Router-Command-injection_POC/blob/master/poc.py
• https://github.com/0xcc-Since2016/TP-Link-WDR-Router-Command-injection_POC/blob/master/poc.py

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