An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. An attacker can send a cookie in an HTTP authentication packet to the router management web interface, and fully control the router without knowledge of the credentials.

An issue was discovered on TP-Link TL-WR1043ND V2 devices. The credentials can be easily decoded and cracked by brute-force, WordList, or Rainbow Table attacks. Specifically, credentials in the "Authorization" cookie are encoded with URL encoding and base64, leading to easy decoding. Also, the username is cleartext, and the password is hashed with the MD5 algorithm (after decoding of the URL encoded string with base64).