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CVE-2026-40322· NVD / CVE Program· CNA GitHub_M

SiYuan: Mermaid `javascript:` Link Injection Leads to Stored XSS and Electron RCE

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.52% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: siyuan-note siyuan 3.6.4.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to siyuan-note siyuan 3.6.4 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.3 and below, Mermaid diagrams are rendered with securityLevel set to "loose", and the resulting SVG is injected into the DOM via innerHTML. This allows attacker-controlled javascript: URLs in Mermaid code blocks to survive into the rendered output. On desktop builds using Electron, windows are created with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, escalating the stored XSS to arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a note containing a malicious Mermaid block and clicks the rendered diagram node. This issue has been fixed in version 3.6.4.

CriticalCVSS 9.0 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Apr 16, 2026
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 43th percentile

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Action score

36

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
36 / 40 · 9.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
9.1
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VendorProduct
b3logsiyuan

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This is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. A well-configured Content-Security-Policy doesn't fix it, but greatly reduces its impact. Check your site's CSP and other security headers for free.

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • b3log siyuanbefore 3.6.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • siyuan-note siyuan

    • < 3.6.4affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-32767SiYuan: Authorization Bypass Allows Arbitrary SQL Execution via Search API
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-30869SiYuan has a Path Traversal in /export Endpoint Allows Arbitrary File Read and Secret Leakage
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2024-53507A SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in Siyuan 3.1.11 in /getHistoryItems.
    39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-40259Apr 16, 2026 · SiYuan: Publish Reader Can Arbitrarily Delete Attribute View Files via removeUnusedAttributeView API
    32Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-40318Apr 16, 2026 · SiYuan: Publish Reader Path Traversal Delete via `removeUnusedAttributeView`
    34Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-40922Apr 16, 2026 · SiYuan: Incomplete sanitization of bazaar README allows stored XSS via iframe srcdoc (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-33066)
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
siyuan-note siyuan3.6.4 · descriptionVendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-398469 days apartSiYuan affected by Remote Code Execution in the Electron desktop client via stored XSS in synced table captions
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-3444816 days apartSiYuan: Stored XSS in Attribute View gallery/kanban cover rendering allows arbitrary command execution in the desktop client
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-3460516 days apartSiYuan: Reflected XSS via SVG namespace prefix bypass in SanitizeSVG ( getDynamicIcon, unauthenticated )
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-3458516 days apartSiYuan: Stored XSS in imported .sy.zip content leads to arbitrary command execution
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2026-3180737 days apartSiYuan has a SVG Sanitizer Bypass via `<animate>` Element — Unauthenticated XSS
    25Monitor
  • CVE-2026-3180937 days apartSiYuan has a SVG Sanitizer Bypass via Whitespace in `javascript:` URI — Unauthenticated XSS
    25Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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