CVE-2016-20036 PUBLISHED

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 15.03.2026 Published: 15.03.2026 Updated: 16.03.2026

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.

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 5.1

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	None	Confidentiality	Low
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	None	Integrity	Low
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Active

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	Low
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Wowza Media Systems, LLC.
Product	Wowza Streaming Engine
Versions	Version 4.5.0 is affected

Credits

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab finder

References

Problem Types

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE