🛡️ CVE-2026-40230
🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ⚠️ 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 knowledge base Doc rendering logic. An authenticated attacker with admin or agent editor privileges can persist arbitrary HTML or JavaScript in the body field of a knowledge base Doc.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 ⚠️ 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
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