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CVE-2026-40229

23
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: Apr 29, 2026Last modified: Apr 29, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:helpy.io:helpy:2.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.1MEDIUM

CVSS: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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
LOW
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 7th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

fluidattacks.com / es/advisories/offspring
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / helpyio/helpy
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