CVE-2008-6882: Joompolitan Com Livechat

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Live Chat (com_livechat) component 1.0 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to use the xmlhttp.php script as an open HTTP proxy to hide network scanning activities or scan internal networks via a GET request with a full URL in the query string.

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Published 2009-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.