Live Helper Chat: REST API chat update accepts arbitrary chat fields across department boundaries
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-863.
Summary
Live Helper Chat is an open-source application that enables live support websites. In 4.84v, the Live Helper Chat REST API chat update endpoint allows a REST user with lhchat/use to update a chat in a department they cannot read. The endpoint accepts arbitrary chat object fields, so the user can change the chat hash and status and then access or tamper with the chat through visitor/widget paths. The same write primitive can set operation_admin, which is later emitted as operator-side JavaScript.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| livehelperchat | livehelperchat | before 4.84v | 4.84v | Patch available | CNA |
- livehelperchat Vendorlivehelperchat Affected before 4.84v Fixed in 4.84v Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA livehelperchat (LiveHelperChat) Fixed in 4.84v
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44633
References
More livehelperchat vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-18290 Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in livehelperchat before 4.34v… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-32325 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the department assignment editing… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2025-32324 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chat transfer function of Live… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-32323 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Personal Canned Messages of Live… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-32322 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Facebook registration page of… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-32321 A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Facebook Chat module of Live… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
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