SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.0 and below, the backend renderREADME function uses lute.New() without calling SetSanitize(true), allowing raw HTML embedded in Markdown to pass through unmodified. The frontend then assigns the rendered HTML to innerHTML without any additional sanitization. A malicious package author can embed arbitrary JavaScript in their README that executes when a user clicks to view the package details. Because SiYuan's Electron configuration enables nodeIntegration: true with contextIsolation: false, this XSS escalates directly to full Remote Code Execution. The issue was patched in version 3.6.1.
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Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-4663-4mpg-879v | SiYuan has Stored XSS to RCE via Unsanitized Bazaar README Rendering |
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History
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:45:00 +0000
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| Description | SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.0 and below, the backend renderREADME function uses lute.New() without calling SetSanitize(true), allowing raw HTML embedded in Markdown to pass through unmodified. The frontend then assigns the rendered HTML to innerHTML without any additional sanitization. A malicious package author can embed arbitrary JavaScript in their README that executes when a user clicks to view the package details. Because SiYuan's Electron configuration enables nodeIntegration: true with contextIsolation: false, this XSS escalates directly to full Remote Code Execution. The issue was patched in version 3.6.1. | |
| Title | SiYuan has Stored XSS to RCE via Unsanitized Bazaar README Rendering | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-20T08:11:52.675Z
Reserved: 2026-03-17T19:27:06.343Z
Link: CVE-2026-33066
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-20T09:16:14.697
Modified: 2026-03-20T13:37:50.737
Link: CVE-2026-33066
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-03-20T16:30:42Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA