๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ CVE-2026-40229
๐ŸŸก CVSS 5.4 โ€” Medium โš ๏ธ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Helpy contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the post author display logic. Any registered user can persist arbitrary HTML in their account name field and cause it to be rendered unescaped in public forum threads where they participate, in the admin ticket view, and in HTML notification emails sent to other users.This issue affects helpy: 2.8.0.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit โš ๏ธ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-29
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
helpy โ€” โ€”

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