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.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.9Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 70.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

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

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Gogithub.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel0.0.0-20260628153353-2d5d72223df4GHSA-5xfx-xj4h-5p7r
Gogithub.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel0.0.0-20260628153353-2d5d72223df4GO-2026-5957

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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

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