CVE-2024-52053 is a critical Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Wowza Streaming Engine versions below 4.9.1, impacting both Linux and Windows deployments. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious client-side JavaScript into the web dashboard, potentially leading to the automatic hijacking of administrative accounts. With a CVSS score of 9.6, it presents a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but successful exploitation grants high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.3.0, < 4.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 0, < 4.9.1CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:wowza:streaming_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.