> It's plausible that on a badly configured network this port could be exposed to the Internet.
It's also plausible that an attacker could find one of these in the local coffee house or any other place that offers public wifi and get at it from the internal side that way, or war driving for access points using weak passwords or WEP, or small office corporate networks with mischievous employees, or an attacker compromising a single PC on the LAN and then using this to change the DNS handed out by the router's DHCP and compromising the others, ...