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CVE-2026-40229

5.1 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.1 · helpy.ioNVD modified 2026-10-26 20:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:helpy.io:helpy:2.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 2