SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.3 and below, Mermaid diagrams are rendered with securityLevel set to "loose", and the resulting SVG is injected into the DOM via innerHTML. This allows attacker-controlled javascript: URLs in Mermaid code blocks to survive into the rendered output. On desktop builds using Electron, windows are created with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, escalating the stored XSS to arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a note containing a malicious Mermaid block and clicks the rendered diagram node. This issue has been fixed in version 3.6.4.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
History
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| Description | SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.3 and below, Mermaid diagrams are rendered with securityLevel set to "loose", and the resulting SVG is injected into the DOM via innerHTML. This allows attacker-controlled javascript: URLs in Mermaid code blocks to survive into the rendered output. On desktop builds using Electron, windows are created with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, escalating the stored XSS to arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a note containing a malicious Mermaid block and clicks the rendered diagram node. This issue has been fixed in version 3.6.4. | |
| Title | SiYuan: Mermaid `javascript:` Link Injection Leads to Stored XSS and Electron RCE | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 CWE-94 |
|
| References |
| |
| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
|
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-16T23:00:07.719Z
Reserved: 2026-04-10T21:41:54.505Z
Link: CVE-2026-40322
No data.
Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-16T23:16:33.733
Modified: 2026-04-16T23:16:33.733
Link: CVE-2026-40322
No data.
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.