CVE-2024-40643 CRITICAL

CVE-2024-40643: Joplin has a parsing error leading to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Vendor Laurent22
Product joplin
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 9, 2024
Last update September 9, 2024
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CVSS base score

9.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 9, 2024 CVE published
September 9, 2024 Record updated