SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to version 3.6.2, a vulnerability allows crafted block attribute values to bypass server-side attribute escaping when an HTML entity is mixed with raw special characters. An attacker can embed a malicious IAL value inside a .sy document, package it as a .sy.zip, and have the victim import it through the normal Import -> SiYuan .sy.zip workflow. Once the note is opened, the malicious attribute breaks out of its original HTML context and injects an event handler, resulting in stored XSS. In the Electron desktop client, this XSS reaches remote code execution because injected JavaScript runs with access to Node/Electron APIs. This issue has been patched in version 3.6.2.
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GHSA-ff66-236v-p4fg | SiYuan Desktop: Stored XSS in imported .sy.zip content leads to arbitrary command execution |
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Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:15:00 +0000
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| Description | SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to version 3.6.2, a vulnerability allows crafted block attribute values to bypass server-side attribute escaping when an HTML entity is mixed with raw special characters. An attacker can embed a malicious IAL value inside a .sy document, package it as a .sy.zip, and have the victim import it through the normal Import -> SiYuan .sy.zip workflow. Once the note is opened, the malicious attribute breaks out of its original HTML context and injects an event handler, resulting in stored XSS. In the Electron desktop client, this XSS reaches remote code execution because injected JavaScript runs with access to Node/Electron APIs. This issue has been patched in version 3.6.2. | |
| Title | SiYuan: Stored XSS in imported .sy.zip content leads to arbitrary command execution | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 CWE-94 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-01T13:34:23.291Z
Reserved: 2026-03-30T16:56:30.999Z
Link: CVE-2026-34585
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-31T22:16:22.080
Modified: 2026-03-31T22:16:22.080
Link: CVE-2026-34585
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