CVE-2025-25187

moderate-risk

Published 2025-02-07

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. This vulnerability is caused by adding note titles to the document using React's `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, without first escaping HTML entities. Joplin lacks a Content-Security-Policy with a restrictive `script-src`. This allows arbitrary JavaScript execution via inline `onclick`/`onload` event handlers in unsanitized HTML. Additionally, Joplin's main window is created with `nodeIntegration` set to `true`, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution to result in arbitrary code execution. Anyone who 1) receives notes from unknown sources and 2) uses <kbd>ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>p</kbd> to search is impacted. This issue has been addressed in version 3.1.24 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Do I need to act?

0.59% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Joplin

Affected Vendors

Joplin Project

References (5)

Product https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Polic...

Product https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/2fc9bd476b0d9abcddb0a46f615a48333779d22...

Patch https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/360ece6f8873ef81afbfb98b25faad696ffcc...

Exploit https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-9gfv-q6wj-fr3c

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal