---
id: CVE-2026-53579
title: Trilium is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application
summary: >-
  Trilium is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application. In versions up
  to and including 0.103.0, the default-on "Safe import" filter sanitizes HTML
  only for text notes and excludes the book note type, whose content is stored
  with…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-79
  - CWE-94
published: '2026-08-27'
updated: '2026-09-09'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-09T16:49:20.627'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53579'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/commit/abb01f09b3ad7792bd3d42a973730c99a062a808
    label: security-advisories@github.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/security/advisories/GHSA-h7w4-cjfg-cvj8
    label: security-advisories@github.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00213
epssPercentile: 0.11946
ingestedAt: '2026-09-09T17:16:03.070Z'
---

## Overview

Trilium is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application. In versions up to and including 0.103.0, the default-on "Safe import" filter sanitizes HTML only for text notes and excludes the book note type, whose content is stored without sanitization and later rendered as HTML, allowing an attacker-supplied import archive to embed a payload that executes as script. A book note's content is routed through the same rendering path as text notes and injected into the page with jQuery's html method when the note is shown as a grid-view preview card, so a malicious note survives Safe import and runs as soon as the victim opens the containing note. On the desktop client the Electron renderer runs with Node integration enabled, so the injected JavaScript escalates from cross-site scripting to full remote code execution on the victim's machine. This issue is fixed in version 0.104.0.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.