CVE-2026-48996

Trilium: Malicious import with GeoMap marker title XSS leads to RCE on the desktop client

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Aug 27, 2026
Updated
Aug 29, 2026
Reserved
May 26, 2026

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Description

Trilium is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application. In versions up to and including 0.103.0, the default-on "Safe import" filter does not sanitize note titles, and the GeoMap note view interpolates a marker note's title into raw HTML that is rendered as innerHTML, allowing an attacker-supplied import archive to inject script that runs when the map is displayed. Because Safe import neutralizes scripts but never escapes titles, a note whose title contains an HTML event-handler payload survives the import and executes as soon as the victim opens the GeoMap that renders its marker. On the desktop client the Electron renderer runs with Node integration enabled, so the injected JavaScript escalates from cross-site scripting to full remote code execution on the victim's machine. This issue is fixed in version 0.104.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.3 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA: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
TriliumTriliumNext
  • < 0.104.0Affected

References

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