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Description

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to perform administrative actions by crafting malicious web pages. Attackers can trick logged-in administrators into visiting a malicious site that submits POST requests to the user edit endpoint to create new admin accounts with arbitrary credentials.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-15 | Published 2026-03-15 | Updated 2026-03-16 | Assigner VulnCheck




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Product status

4.5.0
affected

Credits

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40134 (ExploitDB-40134) exploit

www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5341.php (Vulnerability Advisory) vendor-advisory

www.vulncheck.com/...ming-engine-csrf-via-user-edit-endpoint (VulnCheck Advisory: Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 CSRF via user edit endpoint) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2016-20035)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2016-20035)

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