CVE-2026-53579

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/commit/abb01f09b3ad7792bd3d42a973730c99a062a808
https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/security/advisories/GHSA-h7w4-cjfg-cvj8

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-27 20:17

Updated : 2026-09-09 16:49

NVD link : CVE-2026-53579

Mitre link : CVE-2026-53579

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-53579

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CWE-94

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

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