Secunia Security Advisory - 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.
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TITLE:
Joomla ActiveHelper LiveHelp Component "DOMAINID" Cross-Site
Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39870
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-05-21
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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
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.xenuser.org/2010/05/19/joomla-component-activehelper-livehelp-xss-vulnerabilities/
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