CVE-2021-45675
Published: 26 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-45675 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Netgear R6120 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-32441
Vulnerability details
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by stored XSS. This affects R6120 before 1.0.0.76, R6260 before 1.1.0.78, R6850 before 1.1.0.78, R6350 before 1.1.0.78, R6330 before 1.1.0.78, R6800 before 1.2.0.76, R6700v2 before 1.2.0.76, R6900v2 before 1.2.0.76, R7200 before 1.2.0.76, R7350 before 1.2.0.76,…
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R7400 before 1.2.0.76, R7450 before 1.2.0.76, AC2100 before 1.2.0.76, AC2400 before 1.2.0.76, and AC2600 before 1.2.0.76.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.