CVE-2016-20036 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2016-20036

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

5.1 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab

References

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Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 CSRF via user edit endpoint

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Local Privilege Escalation via nssm_x64.exe

Affected Vendor

Wowza Media Systems, LLC.

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Affected Software

Wowza Streaming Engine

Vulnerable Versions:

4.5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 15th, 2026

Last Modified: May 24th, 2026

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1059.007 JavaScript

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service

T1491.001 Defacement