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CVE-2020-15930

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15930 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Joplin desktop versions 1.0.190 through 1.0.245, which can lead to arbitrary code execution through a malicious HTML embed tag. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction (UI:R) and network access (AV:N) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially resulting in limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild (KEV: No) and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, a proof-of-concept exploit (EDB-48837) is publicly available, indicating the feasibility of exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 1.0.190, <= 1.0.245CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joplin_project:joplin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-48837 · Sep 28, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0438 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: joplinFixed in: 1.1.7

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-cgc7-mwp4-3ccxmedium

Cross-site Scripting in Joplin

May 7, 2021

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/159316/Joplin-1.0.245-Cross-Site-Scripting-Code-Execution.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / laurent22/joplin/issues/3552
Third Party Advisory
github.com / laurent22/joplin/releases/tag/v1.1.4
Release NotesThird Party Advisory