CVE-2026-17496VulnerabilityPublished 07/26/2026Updated 07/27/2026

CVE-2026-17496: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in codexu NoteGen

Affects codexu NoteGenSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.1 High.

Data as of 10/24/2026, 22:16:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

8.1High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Exploitation: Not in CISA KEV, no exploitation reported
EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 45% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
codexuNoteGen	Affected <0.32.0	Fixed in 0.32.0
GitHubnote-gen`pkg:github/note-gen`Other threats	Affected <0.32.0	Fixed in 0.32.0

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AI-suggested

Until an official fix is available, users should avoid loading untrusted or attacker-controlled content that could influence AI model prompts. Implementing proper HTML sanitization on AI chat responses and enforcing a strict Content Security Policy are recommended mitigations once a patch is released.

Description

NoteGen versions prior to 0.32.0 contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to improper sanitization of AI chat responses rendered with markdown-it configured with html:true. The application injects these responses into the DOM using dangerouslySetInnerHTML without HTML sanitization and with a null Content Security Policy (CSP). Malicious input that reaches the AI model prompt can cause executable HTML markup to be included in the response, leading to arbitrary script execution within the privileged Tauri webview context.

Impact

Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the privileged context of the NoteGen application’s Tauri webview. This can lead to compromise of the application, unauthorized actions, data theft, or other malicious activities. The vulnerability requires user interaction (viewing the malicious chat response) but does not require prior privileges or authentication.

Weaknesses

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
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.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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