CVE-2025-51401
Published: 21 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-51401 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 Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); 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-2025-22145
Vulnerability details
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chat transfer function of Live Helper Chat v4.60 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via injecting a crafted payload into the operator name parameter.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in other operators' authenticated browser sessions during chat transfer, facilitating exploitation for client execution, JavaScript interpretation, browser session hijacking, web session cookie theft, and browser credential theft.
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.