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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-39846 EUVD-2026-19973GHSA-phhp-9rm9-6gr2GO-2026-5540

SiYuan affected by Remote Code Execution in the Electron desktop client via stored XSS in synced table captions

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SiYuan is a personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.6.4, a malicious note synced to another user can trigger remote code execution in the SiYuan Electron desktop client. The root cause is that table caption content is stored without safe escaping and later unescaped into rendered HTML, creating a stored XSS sink. Because the desktop renderer runs with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, attacker-controlled JavaScript executes with access to Node.js APIs. In practice, an attacker can import a crafted note into a synced workspace, wait for the victim to sync, and achieve code execution when the victim opens the note. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
siyuan-note siyuan < 3.6.4 —

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 < 0.0.0-20260407035653-2f416e5253f1 0.0.0-20260407035653-2f416e5253f1 GHSA-phhp-9rm9-6gr2

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