A security researcher has found a vulnerability that affects the Linksys WRT54G 802.11g WiFi router, giving access to the configuration pages through an easily deduced password.
Alan Rateliff, in a posting to the BugTraq mailing list, said that the WRT54G router provides administrative access by default to ports 80 and 443 on the WAN. The user can use the admin pages to configure the device himself. According to reports, the username defaults to “admin”.
“The implications are obvious: out of the box the unit gives full access to its administration from the WAN using the default or, if the user even bothered to change it, an easily guessed password,” Radcliffe wrote.
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