CVE-2026-53579

Trilium: Note Import to RCE via Book Note

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Aug 27, 2026
Updated
Aug 28, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 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 sanitizes HTML only for text notes and excludes the book note type, whose content is stored without sanitization and later rendered as HTML, allowing an attacker-supplied import archive to embed a payload that executes as script. A book note's content is routed through the same rendering path as text notes and injected into the page with jQuery's html method when the note is shown as a grid-view preview card, so a malicious note survives Safe import and runs as soon as the victim opens the containing note. 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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