CVE-2024-40643

CRITICAL EPSS 50.2%
Published Sep 9, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
9.6 CVSS 3.1
Critical
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Published Sep 9, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
9.6
Exploitability
2.8
Impact
6.0
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
50.2% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting Injection

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
joplin_projectjoplin* <3.0.15

References 2

  • github.com https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc
    ExploitVendor Advisory

Remediation

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