CVE-2026-40322
CRITICALSiYuan: Mermaid `javascript:` Link Injection Leads to Stored XSS and Electron RCE
Title source: cnaDescription
SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. In versions 3.6.3 and below, Mermaid diagrams are rendered with securityLevel set to "loose", and the resulting SVG is injected into the DOM via innerHTML. This allows attacker-controlled javascript: URLs in Mermaid code blocks to survive into the rendered output. On desktop builds using Electron, windows are created with nodeIntegration enabled and contextIsolation disabled, escalating the stored XSS to arbitrary code execution when a victim opens a note containing a malicious Mermaid block and clicks the rendered diagram node. This issue has been fixed in version 3.6.4.
Scores
CVSS v3
9.0
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
14.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-79
CWE-94
Status
published
Products (2)
b3log/siyuan
< 3.6.4
siyuan-note/siyuan
< 3.6.4
Published
Apr 16, 2026
Tracked Since
Apr 17, 2026