CVE-2024-40643

Published: Sep 9, 2024Modified: Sep 17, 2024

9.6

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 6.0

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Joplin Project: Joplin

Joplin Project

1 product

Joplin

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Joplin Project Joplin	Before 3.0.15

Related CWEs

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References (2)

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

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

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

Source: security-advisories@github.com

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