CVE-2025-51396
Published: 21 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-51396 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Livehelperchat Live Helper Chat. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 31.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-22149
Vulnerability details
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Live Helper Chat v4.60 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via injecting a crafted payload into the Telegram Bot Username parameter.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the browser of privileged users (e.g., admins) viewing the Telegram Bot configuration, exploiting the public-facing web application (T1190), executing JavaScript (T1059.007), and facilitating theft of web session cookies (T1539) or browser credentials (T1555.003).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.