Critical (9.0) in marktext marktext. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
MarkText through 0.16.3 does not sanitize the input of a mermaid block before rendering. This could lead to Remote Code Execution via a .md file containing a mutation Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) payload.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.0 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)