typora up to 1.38 Export from Editor cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in typora up to 1.38. It has been declared as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Export from Editor. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-40011. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in typora up to 1.38. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Export from Editor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Typora through 1.3.8 allows XSS if a document containing an SVG element with an attacker-controlled onload attribute is exported and then used at a victim's origin.

The weakness was published 12/24/2022. The advisory is shared for download at gist.github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-40011 since 09/06/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• typora

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38

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