CVE-2026-33976

Notesnook vulnerable to RCE via stored XSS in Web Clipper rendering

State
Published
Severity
9.7 Critical
Published
Mar 27, 2026
Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Reserved
Mar 24, 2026

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Description

Notesnook is a note-taking app. Prior to version 3.3.11 on Web/Desktop and 3.3.17 on Android/iOS, a stored XSS in the Web Clipper rendering flow can be escalated to remote code execution in the desktop app. The root cause is that the clipper preserves attacker-controlled attributes from the source page’s root element and stores them inside web-clip HTML. When the clip is later opened, Notesnook renders that HTML into a same-origin, unsandboxed iframe using `contentDocument.write(...)`. Event-handler attributes such as `onload`, `onclick`, or `onmouseover` execute in the Notesnook origin. In the desktop app, this becomes RCE because Electron is configured with `nodeIntegration: true` and `contextIsolation: false`. Version 3.3.11 Web/Desktop and 3.3.17 on Android/iOS patch the issue.

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')
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Notesnook Web/Desktopstreetwriters
  • < 3.3.11Affected
Notesnook iOS/Androidstreetwriters
  • < 3.3.17Affected

References

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