CVE-2026-41421CWE-78CWE-79

SiYuan Desktop Notification XSS Leads to Electron RCE

High · published April 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.6.5, SiYuan desktop renders notification messages as raw HTML inside an Electron renderer. The notification route POST /api/notification/pushMsg accepts a user-controlled msg value, forwards it through the backend broadcast layer, and the frontend inserts it into the DOM with insertAdjacentHTML(...) at message.ts. On desktop builds, this is not limited to ordinary XSS. Electron windows are created with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, and webSecurity: false at main.js. As a result, JavaScript executed from the notification sink can directly access Node APIs and escalate to desktop code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'); CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-04-24T18:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 APR 18:53Z
    SiYuan Desktop Notification XSS Leads to Electron RCE
    cvelistv5