An issue was discovered in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• wowza streaming enginebefore 4.7.1

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-19365The REST API in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.4.01 allows traversal of the directory structure and retrieval of a file via a remote, specifical
  43Plan
• CVE-2018-7047An issue was discovered in the MBeans Server in Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.7.1.
  40Plan
• CVE-2024-52052Stream Target Remote Code Execution in Wowza Streaming Engine
  37Monitor
• CVE-2020-9004A remote authenticated authorization-bypass vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any read-only user to issue req
  36Monitor
• CVE-2016-20034Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit
  34Monitor
• CVE-2016-20033Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Local Privilege Escalation via nssm_x64.exe
  34Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.