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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2026-40229

Helpy contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the post author display logic.

MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 0.18%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 4.0
5.1 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.18% probability · 7th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
helpy.io/helpy
Source
help@fluidattacks.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.