🛡️ CVE-2024-27516 — live-helper-chat

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

livehelperchat Server-Side Template Injection

Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in livehelperchat before 4.34, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and obtain sensitive information via the search parameter in lhc_web/modules/lhfaq/faqweight.php.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-27516 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2024-27516 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • live-helper-chat (fixed in 4.34)
  • remdex/livehelperchat (fixed in 4.29)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 February 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-29
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
live-helper-chat — 4.34
remdex/livehelperchat — 4.29

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Exploit Protection

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