Reflected cross-site scripting in DIR-620 - CVE-2018-6212
Published: May 24, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13008
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6212
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: D-Link
Affected software:
DIR-620
DIR-620
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6212
To mitigate the issues Kaspersky recommends:
- Restrict any access to the web dashboard using a whitelist of trusted IPs
- Restrict any access to Telnet
- Regularly change your router admin username and password.