CVE-2024-52053 Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Wowza Streaming Engine

What is CVE-2024-52053?

CVE-2024-52053 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Stored Cross-Site Scripting in the Manager component of Wowza Streaming Engine below 4.9.1 allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject client-side JavaScript into the web dashboard to automatically hijack admin accounts.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52053?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wowza Streaming Engine.

How do I fix CVE-2024-52053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-52053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Wowza Streaming Engine

• CVE-2018-7047 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-52052 Stream Target Remote Code Execution in Wowza Streaming Engine Critical 9.4
• CVE-2018-19365 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2020-9004 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-20034 Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Privilege Escalation via user edit High 8.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f2q5-6frm-qr93.