Security Advisory SA39870 - Joomla ActiveHelper LiveHelp Component "DOMAINID" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA39870

Joomla ActiveHelper LiveHelp Component "DOMAINID" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA39870

Release Date

2010-05-20

Last Update

2010-05-27

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Unpatched

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Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

ActiveHelper LiveHelp 2.x (component for Joomla)

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-2046 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Valentin Hoebel has discovered a vulnerability in the ActiveHelper LiveHelp component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "DOMAINID" parameter in administrator/components/com_activehelper_livehelp/server/cookies.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by
Valentin Hoebel

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Original Advisory
http://www.xenuser.org/2010/05/19/joomla-component-activehelper-livehelp-xss-vulnerabilities/

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