Patch · published Ongoing · last verified 17 August 2026
Multiple CVEs; Quad7-style botnet activity on end-of-life units
Older unsupported routers have appeared in botnets and credential attacks.
Scope caveat: Not a blanket claim about all TP-Link products. Filter by exact model hardware revision and firmware.
- Affected products
- TP-Link routers and smart devices
- Hardware revisions
- Varies per advisory
- Firmware range
- Varies per advisory
- Threat
- Multiple CVEs; Quad7-style botnet activity on end-of-life units
- CVE references
- Multiple
- Impact
- Older unsupported routers have appeared in botnets and credential attacks.
- Conditions required
- Model, hardware revision and firmware specific.
- Vendor response
- TP-Link maintains a dated security advisory register.
- Consumer action
- Check your hardware version, apply the official patch, and retire end-of-life units.
- Status
- Vendor register
- Source type
- Vendor