CVE-2023-1389
KEVHIGH 8.8EPSS 100.0%
TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) firmware versions before 1.1.4 Build 20230219 contained a command injection vulnerability in the country form of the /cgi-bin/luci;stok=/locale endpoint on the web management interface. Specifically, the country parameter of the write operation was not sanitized before being used in a call to popen(), allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands, which would be run as root, with a simple POST request.
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 100.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2023-05-01
- Nuclei
- critical · CWE-78
- Published
- 2023-03-15
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (9)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174131/TP-Link-Archer-AX21-Command-Injection.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-11
- BrandonFanti/FoWL3★ · 2025-01-26
- Voyag3r-Security/CVE-2023-138917★ · 2024-07-18
- infcodev/pentesting_scripts0★ · 2026-01-03
- ohnahee/CVE_2023_1389_poc0★ · 2025-04-27
- werwolfz/CVE-2023-13891★ · 2023-09-09
- R00T-Kim/SCOUT
- defencore/openwrt_tp-link_archer_ax53_eu_1.0