CVE-2018-17440 is a critical vulnerability affecting D-Link Central WiFi Manager before version 1.03r0100-Beta1, stemming from an exposed FTP server with hardcoded 'admin' credentials on port 9000. This allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary PHP files to the web root, leading to remote code execution. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered community discussion and media coverage, indicating significant attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.00, < 1.03CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dlink:central_wifimanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.