CVE-2026-27954 PUBLISHED

LiveHelperChat has department-level authorization bypass in holdaction, blockuser, and transferchat endpoints

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.02.2026 Published: 26.02.2026 Updated: 26.02.2026

Live Helper Chat is an open-source application that enables live support websites. In versions up to and including 4.52, three chat action endpoints (holdaction.php, blockuser.php, and transferchat.php) load chat objects by ID without calling erLhcoreClassChat::hasAccessToRead(), allowing operators to act on chats in departments they are not assigned to. Operators with the relevant role permissions (holduse, allowblockusers, allowtransfer) can hold, block users from, or transfer chats in departments they are not assigned to. This is a horizontal privilege escalation within one organization. As of time of publication, no known patched versions are available.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CVSS Score: 4.9

Product Status

Vendor LiveHelperChat
Product livehelperchat
Versions
  • Version <= 4.52 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE