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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-34585 EUVD-2026-17685GHSA-ff66-236v-p4fgGO-2026-5357

SiYuan: Stored XSS in imported .sy.zip content leads to arbitrary command execution

Published Mar 31, 2026 · Updated Apr 1, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
siyuan-note siyuan < 3.6.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel < 0.0.0-20260329142331-918d1bd9f967 0.0.0-20260329142331-918d1bd9f967 GHSA-ff66-236v-p4fg

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