CVE-2026-39846

SiYuan affected by Remote Code Execution in the Electron desktop client via stored XSS in synced table captions

Published Apr 7, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.6.4, a malicious note synced to another user can trigger remote code execution in the SiYuan Electron desktop client. The root cause is that table caption content is stored without safe escaping and later unescaped into rendered HTML, creating a stored XSS sink. Because the desktop renderer runs with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, attacker-controlled JavaScript executes with access to Node.js APIs. In practice, an attacker can import a crafted note into a synced workspace, wait for the victim to sync, and achieve code execution when the victim opens the note. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.4.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-phhp-9rm9-6gr2 SiYuan: Remote Code Execution in the Electron desktop client via stored XSS in synced table captions
History
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First Time appeared B3log
B3log siyuan
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:b3log:siyuan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products B3log
B3log siyuan
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Siyuan
Siyuan siyuan
Vendors & Products Siyuan
Siyuan siyuan
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.6.4, a malicious note synced to another user can trigger remote code execution in the SiYuan Electron desktop client. The root cause is that table caption content is stored without safe escaping and later unescaped into rendered HTML, creating a stored XSS sink. Because the desktop renderer runs with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, attacker-controlled JavaScript executes with access to Node.js APIs. In practice, an attacker can import a crafted note into a synced workspace, wait for the victim to sync, and achieve code execution when the victim opens the note. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.4.
Title SiYuan affected by Remote Code Execution in the Electron desktop client via stored XSS in synced table captions
Weaknesses CWE-79
CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 8, 2026, 3:23 PM
Reserved
Apr 7, 2026, 7:13 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Apr 7, 2026, 10:16 PM
Modified
Jul 20, 2026, 8:10 PM