CVE-2018-17442 — An issue was discovered on D-Link Central WiFi Manager before v 1

An issue was discovered on D-Link Central WiFi Manager before v 1.03r0100-Beta1. An unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the onUploadLogPic endpoint allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on D-Link Central WiFi Manager before v 1.03r0100-Beta1. An unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the onUploadLogPic endpoint allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-08T16:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:47:04.913Z

09References

• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45533/
• www.secureauth.com — https://www.secureauth.com/labs/advisories/d-link-central-wifimanager-software-c…
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/11
• securityadvisories.dlink.com — https://securityadvisories.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10092