{"id":"CVE-2026-44588","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"SiYuan: URL-encoded title bypasses `escapeAriaLabel`, decoded by `decodeURIComponent` into a tooltip-XSS","description":"SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.7.0,  he tooltip mouseover handler in app/src/block/popover.ts reads aria-label via getAttribute and passes it through decodeURIComponent before assigning to messageElement.innerHTML in app/src/dialog/tooltip.ts:41. The encoder used at the producer side, escapeAriaLabel in app/src/util/escape.ts:19-25, only handles HTML special characters (\", ', <, literal &lt;) — it leaves %XX URL-escapes untouched. So a doc title containing %3Cimg src=x onerror=...%3E round-trips through escapeAriaLabel and the HTML attribute layer unmodified. Then decodeURIComponent on the consumer side converts %3C to a literal < character (a real <, NOT a character reference). When that string is assigned to innerHTML, the HTML5 tokenizer enters TagOpenState on the literal <, parses the <img> element, and the onerror handler fires. Because the renderer runs with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, webSecurity: false (app/electron/main.js:407-411), require('child_process') is reachable from the injected handler, escalating to arbitrary code execution.This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.0.","publishedAt":"2026-05-14T18:23:27.595Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-15T14:12:05.382Z","severity":{"score":9.4,"label":"Critical","version":"4.0","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","source":"GitHub_M"},"assigner":"GitHub_M","products":["siyuan-note siyuan"],"affected":[{"vendor":"siyuan-note","product":"siyuan","versions":[{"version":"< 3.7.0","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm"],"weaknesses":["CWE-79","CWE-116","CWE-1188"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:11:57.932Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44588.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-44588","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-05-14T18:23:27.595Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-15T14:12:05.382Z","assignerShortName":"GitHub_M","assignerOrgId":"a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa","dateReserved":"2026-05-06T21:49:12.425Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"SiYuan: URL-encoded title bypasses `escapeAriaLabel`, decoded by `decodeURIComponent` into a tooltip-XSS","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.7.0,  he tooltip mouseover handler in app/src/block/popover.ts reads aria-label via getAttribute and passes it through decodeURIComponent before assigning to messageElement.innerHTML in app/src/dialog/tooltip.ts:41. The encoder used at the producer side, escapeAriaLabel in app/src/util/escape.ts:19-25, only handles HTML special characters (\", ', <, literal &lt;) — it leaves %XX URL-escapes untouched. So a doc title containing %3Cimg src=x onerror=...%3E round-trips through escapeAriaLabel and the HTML attribute layer unmodified. Then decodeURIComponent on the consumer side converts %3C to a literal < character (a real <, NOT a character reference). When that string is assigned to innerHTML, the HTML5 tokenizer enters TagOpenState on the literal <, parses the <img> element, and the onerror handler fires. Because the renderer runs with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, webSecurity: false (app/electron/main.js:407-411), require('child_process') is reachable from the injected handler, escalating to arbitrary code execution.This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.0."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"siyuan-note","product":"siyuan","versions":[{"version":"< 3.7.0","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm","name":"https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]}],"metrics":[{"cvssV4_0":{"attackVector":"NETWORK","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","userInteraction":"ACTIVE","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","vulnIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":9.4,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","version":"4.0"}}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-79","lang":"en","description":"CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","type":"CWE"}]},{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-116","lang":"en","description":"CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output","type":"CWE"}]},{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-1188","lang":"en","description":"CWE-1188: Insecure Default Initialization of Resource","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"GitHub_M","orgId":"a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa","dateUpdated":"2026-05-14T18:23:27.595Z"},"source":{"advisory":"GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm","discovery":"UNKNOWN"}},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm","tags":["exploit"]}],"metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2026-05-15T14:11:36.515392Z","id":"CVE-2026-44588","options":[{"Exploitation":"poc"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"total"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2026-05-15T14:12:05.382Z"}}]}}}