CVE-2024-40643

critical

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-09

Updated: 2024-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H