Introduction
Copyright and Disclaimer
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The Security Research
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The vulnerability described in this security advisory was discovered by Ulisses Castro on November 1st 2010 during an internal research procedure.
Issue Description
LiveZilla is an application provided by LiveZilla GmbH to provide Live Chats, monitor website visitors in real-time and convert them in to customers. LiveZilla is affected by Reflected Cross Site Scripting on server.php in the “module” track which calls a vulnerable javascript function.
Affected Components
The issue was confirmed on version 3.2.0.2 but other other versions maybe also affected.
Issue Mitigation
LiveZilla released an update to fix the vulnerability, please check the availability at their changelog page.
CVSS Scoring System
The CVSS score is: 6.4
- Base Score: 6.7
- Temporal Score: 6.4
We used the following values to calculate the scores:
- Base score is: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
- Temporal score is: E:F/RL:U/RC:C
Details
The request http://<server>/livezilla/server.php?request=track&livezilla=<script>alert('xss')</script> pass through the following files:
- htdocs\livezilla\server.php
- htdocs\livezilla\track.php
- htdocs\livezilla\templates\jscript\jstrack.tpl
And land in this code exception:
--- 207 208 function lz_tracking_set_sessid(_userId, _browId) 209 { 210 if(lz_session.UserId != _userId) 211 { 212 lz_session.UserId = _userId; 213 lz_session.BrowserId = _browId; 214 lz_session.Save(); 215 } 216 } 217 ---The javascript file “jstrack.tpl” is called by track.php and contains a function named “lz_tracking_set_sessid()” which does not sanitize data and may allow an attacker to inject a malicious javascript code to support Reflected Cross Site Script attacks against users.
