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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-15930

An XSS issue in Joplin desktop 1.0.190 to 1.0.245 allows arbitrary code execution via a malicious HTML embed tag.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-15930

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Sept 2020, 19:15 UTC

An XSS issue in Joplin desktop 1.0.190 to 1.0.245 allows arbitrary code execution via a malicious HTML embed tag.

osv:CVE-2020-15930
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15930",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-15930",
    "summary": "An XSS issue in Joplin desktop 1.0.190 to 1.0.245 allows arbitrary code execution via a malicious HTML embed tag.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-15930",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:57.627176699Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/3552",
        "https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/releases/tag/v1.1.4"
      ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383165,
  "published_at": "2020-09-24T19:15:11.713+00:00"
}