Vulnerability · Published Apr 29, 2026 · Assigned by Fluid Attacks

CVE-2026-40230Helpy 2.8.0 - Stored XSS in knowledgebase Doc body rendering

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in helpy from helpyio. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
helpyio helpy 2.8.0

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

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