# CVE-2026-44588: SiYuan: URL-encoded title bypasses \`escapeAriaLabel\`, decoded by \`decodeURIComponent\` into a tooltip-XSS

- Also known as: GHSA-25RP-H46X-2HJM, GO-2026-4993
- Severity: CVSS 9.4 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.7.0
- Published: 2026-05-14 · Updated: 2026-05-15

## Affected

- siyuan-note siyuan: fixed in 3.7.0
- github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel (Go): through 0.0.0-20260421031503-96dfe0bea474
- github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel (Go): all versions

## Description

SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.7.0, he tooltip mouseover handler in app/src/block/popover.ts reads aria-label via getAttribute and passes it through decodeURIComponent before assigning to messageElement.innerHTML in app/src/dialog/tooltip.ts:41. The encoder used at the producer side, escapeAriaLabel in app/src/util/escape.ts:19-25, only handles HTML special characters (", ', <, literal &lt;) — it leaves %XX URL-escapes untouched. So a doc title containing %3Cimg src=x onerror=...%3E round-trips through escapeAriaLabel and the HTML attribute layer unmodified. Then decodeURIComponent on the consumer side converts %3C to a literal < character (a real <, NOT a character reference). When that string is assigned to innerHTML, the HTML5 tokenizer enters TagOpenState on the literal <, parses the <img> element, and the onerror handler fires. Because the renderer runs with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, webSecurity: false (app/electron/main.js:407-411), require('child_process') is reachable from the injected handler, escalating to arbitrary code execution.This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on siyuan-note siyuan, github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (3.7.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-25rp-h46x-2hjm

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