Stored XSS via inline asset serving
Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in the assets handler in SiYuan before 3.7.4 allows remote authenticated users to execute script via uploaded HTML assets. The GET /assets/*path handler falls through to http.ServeFile for non-SVG assets, sets Content-Disposition only when download=true is supplied, and omits X-Content-Type-Options on that fallback path, so browser-renderable uploads are served inline in the kernel origin. Exploitation requires an authenticated user to place a malicious asset and a victim such as the workspace owner to open its link, after which the script can use the victim's ambient session to read and modify notebook data and invoke admin-only kernel actions.
Summary
What happened
Stored cross-site scripting in the assets handler in SiYuan before 3.7.4 allows remote authenticated users to execute script via uploaded HTML assets. The GET /assets/*path handler falls through to http.ServeFile for non-SVG assets, sets Content-Disposition only when download=true is supplied, and omits X-Content-Type-Options on that fallback path, so browser-renderable uploads are served inline in the kernel origin. Exploitation requires an authenticated user to place a malicious asset and a victim such as the workspace owner to open its link, after which the script can use the victim's ambient session to read and modify notebook data and invoke admin-only kernel actions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-74800
- Published
- Aug 17, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- Vendor
- SiYuan Note
- Product
- SiYuan
- Classifications
- CWE-79, CWE-434, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 17, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 17, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <3.7.4
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- GHSA-mjf3-jwmf-r6wf proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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