CVE-2016-20036
Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.1 Medium
- Published
- Mar 15, 2026
- Updated
- May 24, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 15, 2026
Description
Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains multiple reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the enginemanager interface where input passed through various parameters is not properly sanitized before being returned to users. Attackers can inject malicious script code through parameters like appName, vhost, uiAppType, and wowzaCloudDestinationType in multiple endpoints to execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript in a user's browser session.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 5.1 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 6.1 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Wowza Streaming EngineWowza Media Systems, LLC. |
|
References
- ExploitDB-40135exploit
- Vulnerability Advisoryvendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilitiesthird-party-advisory
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