Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 9, 2024· Updated Sep 9, 2024
Joplin has a parsing error leading to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
CVE-2024-40643
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.
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References
2- github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmcmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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