CVE-2024-40643

Joplin has a parsing error leading to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

State
Published
Severity
9.7 Critical
Published
Sep 9, 2024
Updated
Sep 9, 2024
Reserved
Jul 8, 2024

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Description

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin fails to take into account that "<" followed by a non letter character will not be considered html. As such it is possible to do an XSS by putting an "illegal" tag within a tag.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.7 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
joplinlaurent22
  • < 3.0.15Affected

References

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