TP-LINK TL-WA701ND Directory Traversal and Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities


Description   Michael Messner has reported two vulnerabilities in TL-WA701ND access point, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information and conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
1) Input appended to the URL after /help/ is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.
2) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing proper validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. modify user credentials or inject malicious HTML and script code if a logged-in administrative user visits a malicious web site.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 3.12.6 build 110210 Rel.37112n and 3.12.16 build 120228 Rel.37317n. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable OS:
TP-LINK TL-WA701ND Access PointVulnerable Software:
     
Solution   No official solution is currently available.
     
CVE  
     
References   Michael Messner:
http://www.s3cur1ty.de/m1adv2013-011
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL
3.2.0
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
Directory traversal using ..\..
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL
3.2.0
Directory traversal
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
Directory traversal backward root folder
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-03-05 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote