Vulnerability · Published Jun 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-54158SiYuan: Stored XSS to RCE via attribute-view cell rendering in genAVValueHTML()
Critical 9.9
In plain English
A critical-severity cross-site scripting in siyuan from siyuan-note. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.7.0, the attribute-view (database) cell renderer genAVValueHTML interpolates cell content raw in four of its branches: text, url, phone, and mAsset. A cell value like </textarea><img src=x onerror="..."> or "><img src=x onerror="..."> breaks out of its surrounding tag and runs arbitrary JavaScript in the renderer when the victim opens the block-attribute panel. On Electron desktop the renderer runs with nodeIntegration:true, so the XSS chains to host RCE via require('child_process'). AV files live under the workspace and ride normal sync, so an attacker with write access to any synced workspace plants the payload once and it fires on every device that opens a panel containing that row.he kernel doesn't escape on the way in either, so the malicious cell persists byte-for-byte. There's no equivalent of the html.EscapeAttrVal call that protects block IAL attributes at kernel/model/blockial.go:261. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.0.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel | 0.0.0-20260628153353-2d5d72223df4 | GHSA-5xfx-xj4h-5p7r |
| Go | github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel | 0.0.0-20260628153353-2d5d72223df4 | GO-2026-5957 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| siyuan-note | siyuan | < 3.7.0 |
Weakness: CWE-79, CWE-1188 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-5xfx-xj4h-5p7r x_refsource_CONFIRM