CVE-2026-53579CWE-79CWE-94cross-site-scriptingcode-injection

CVE-2026-53579

Medium · published August 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Trilium is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application. In versions up to and including 0.103.0, the default-on "Safe import" filter sanitizes HTML only for text notes and excludes the book note type, whose content is stored without sanitization and later rendered as HTML, allowing an attacker-supplied import archive to embed a payload that executes as script. A book note's content is routed through the same rendering path as text notes and injected into the page with jQuery's html method when the note is shown as a grid-view preview card, so a malicious note survives Safe import and runs as soon as the victim opens the containing note. On the desktop client the Electron renderer runs with Node integration enabled, so the injected JavaScript escalates from cross-site scripting to full remote code execution on the victim's machine. This issue is fixed in version 0.104.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.00252 · 15.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'); CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Published
2026-08-28T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
triliumnotes/trilium< 0.104.00.104.0
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 19:33Z
    Trilium: Note Import to RCE via Book Note
    cvelistv5