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Re:Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers by tagliala on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @07:19PM (#6997466)
fortunately, on my wag160n it doesn't seem exposed to the internet
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Re:Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers by Cakez0r on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @10:22PM (#6998012)
That's not to say somebody can't embed something on a web page (E.G. flash) that connects to 192.168.1.1 and enables configuration from WAN :)
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Re:Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers by nadaviv on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:32AM (#6998362)
Flash won't let you open connections to other hosts (unless there's a crossdomain.xml file that allows it).

With html/javascript you can send http requests to other hosts, but you can't read the response. It seems like the backdoor isn't accessed over http, so that wouldn't help you either.

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