CVE-2026-40229

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.4 Medium

Status

Analyzed - help@fluidattacks.com

Published

2026-04-29

Last modified

2026-10-26

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Helpy (Helpy.io)
• Helpy (Helpyio)

References

• https://fluidattacks.com/es/advisories/offspring
• https://github.com/helpyio/helpy