Poor UX in Asus routers can leave the web UI unintentionally exposed to the Internet

Posted by David Longenecker on Feb 10

Asus wireless routers running ASUSWRT firmware (in other words, anything
with an RT- in the model name) have a design flaw in which the
administrator web interface may be open to the public Internet even if you
have specifically disabled web access from the WAN.

Specifically, these routers have two separate controls that affect access
to the router web interface, and no warning that one can override the
other. In order to block public access to…