AUD$150?
I wonder what Belkin charges for a secure model.
Security bod Joel Land has reported zero-day holes in a popular model of Belkin router allowing attackers to yank cleartext credentials, spoof DNS responses, and pop admin interfaces. The Belkin N600 DB Wireless Dual Band N+ box released in 2012 and selling for around AUD$150 contains five vulnerabilities from slack randomness …
So if the router was electrically unsafe it would have been removed from sale.
Being "digitally" unsafe however provides Belkin with extra margin by cheapskating on software.
Frankly, a CVE should be an automatic "remove from sale" until it is fixed and if it is not fixed in a timely manner a "recall at the cost of the manufacturer". It is funny how a lot of the "cheap" crap sold by the like of Belkin will suddenly stop being cheaper than proper kit at that point.
So if the router was electrically unsafe it would have been removed from sale.
Belkin products are only electrically unsafe if you plug them in and turn them on, which the manuals explicitly warn against. Injury, death and property damage resulting from the use of Belkin products are always due to consumer error.