CVE-2007-6708 (GCVE-0-2007-6708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:18
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Summary
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on the Cisco Linksys WAG54GS Wireless-G ADSL Gateway with 1.01.03 and earlier firmware allow remote attackers to perform actions as administrators via an arbitrary valid request to an administrative URI, as demonstrated by (1) a Restore Factory Defaults action using the mtenRestore parameter to setup.cgi and (2) creation of a user account using the sysname parameter to setup.cgi.
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2007-11-20 00:00
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