Vulnerability · Published Jan 29, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24123

Critical 9.0

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.0Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 19.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

MarkText through 0.16.3 does not sanitize the input of a mermaid block before rendering. This could lead to Remote Code Execution via a .md file containing a mutation Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) payload.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues/2946 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/marktext/marktext/pull/2947 x_refsource_MISC