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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-33041

vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class="markdown-body"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-33041

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 May 2021, 17:15 UTC

vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class="markdown-body"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.

osv:CVE-2021-33041
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-33041",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-33041",
    "summary": "vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class=\"markdown-body\"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-33041",
    "products": [],
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:46.913080508Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384621,
  "published_at": "2021-05-17T17:15:08.73+00:00"
}