Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 User Edit Endpoint cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component User Edit Endpoint. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2016-20035. The attack may be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0. Affected is an unknown code block of the component User Edit Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared by Gjoko Krstic as 40134. The advisory is available at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-20035 since 03/15/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

03/15/2026 Advisory disclosed
03/15/2026 +0 days CVE reserved
03/15/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
03/20/2026 +5 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 40134
Researcher: Gjoko Krstic
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2016-20035 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-20035
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-351174
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2026 21:36
Updated: 03/20/2026 21:24
Changes: 03/15/2026 21:36 (79), 03/20/2026 21:24 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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