CVE-2024-40643 (GCVE-0-2024-40643)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-09 14:28 – Updated: 2024-09-09 14:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Joplin has a parsing error leading to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin fails to take into account that "<" followed by a non letter character will not be considered html. As such it is possible to do an XSS by putting an "illegal" tag within a tag.
Severity
9.7 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-09 14:51 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b22041… | x_refsource_MISC |
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