VulnerabilityPublished 12 Aug 2026Updated 14 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-72795: siyuan · Missing Authorization

Affects siyuanSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.2 Critical : upgrade to 3.7.4 as a priority.

Data as of 9 Nov 2026, 23:24 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score

9.2Critical

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 23% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 3.7.4

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Attack Requirements: None
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Vulnerable system confidentiality: High
Vulnerable system integrity: None
Vulnerable system availability: None
Subsequent system confidentiality: High
Subsequent system integrity: None
Subsequent system availability: None

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

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable system is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed below, 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: The attacker must take no measurable action to exploit the vulnerability. The attack requires no target-specific circumvention to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable system.
Attack Requirements: None: The successful attack does not depend on the deployment and execution conditions of the vulnerable system. The attacker can expect to be able to reach the vulnerability and execute the exploit under all or most instances of the vulnerability.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any human user, other than the attacker.
Vulnerable system confidentiality: High: There is a total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all information within the Vulnerable System being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact. For example, an attacker steals the administrator's password, or private encryption keys of a web server.
Vulnerable system integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the Vulnerable System.
Vulnerable system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system confidentiality: High: There is a total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the Subsequent System being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact. For example, an attacker steals the administrator's password, or private encryption keys of a web server.
Subsequent system integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the Subsequent System or all integrity impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.
Subsequent system availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the Subsequent System or all availability impact is constrained to the Vulnerable System.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v4.0 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 12 Aug 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade siyuan and siyuan-note/siyuan to 3.7.4.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
siyuan-notesiyuan	Affected <3.7.4	Fixed in 3.7.4
GitHubsiyuan-note/siyuan`pkg:github/siyuan-note/siyuan`Other threats	Affected <3.7.4	Fixed in 3.7.4

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AI-suggested

Since the vulnerability affects versions before 3.7.4, upgrading to version 3.7.4 or later is likely recommended once official fixes are published. Until then, restrict access to the affected endpoints or monitor for suspicious requests if possible.

Description

**CVE:** This vulnerability corresponds to [CVE-2026-72795](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72795). ### Summary `/api/block/getBlockDOMWithEmbed` and `/api/block/getBlockDOMsWithEmbed` gate only the *requested* block against publish access. The blocks pulled in by that block's embed (transclusion) query are inlined into the returned DOM with no publish-access check at all, so a reader who requests a legitimately-published block containing an embed query receives the content of every block that query matched including blocks in hidden, forbidden and password-protected documents. The dedicated embed endpoint `getEmbedBlock` filters these same results for reader roles. The DOM-with-embed path does not. ### Details | Item | Detail | |---|---| | Routes | `kernel/api/router.go:226` `POST /api/block/getBlockDOMWithEmbed` → `model.CheckAuth` → `getBlockDOMWithEmbed`; `:227` `POST /api/block/getBlockDOMsWithEmbed` → `model.CheckAuth` → `getBlockDOMsWithEmbed` | | Middleware | `CheckAuth` only — no `CheckReadonly`, no `CheckAdminRole` → reachable by the publish `RoleReader` token, and anonymously when `Publish.Auth.Enable` is `false` | | Guard present | Top-level requested block only. Singular: password + disable checks on the requested id. Plural: `filterBlockDOMsByPublishAccess` over the requested ids. | | Guard absent | The embedded blocks resolved from the query | | Exposed | Content HTML of every block matched by the embed query, regardless of that block's publish visibility or password tier | **The leak path.** `getBlockDOMWithEmbed` → `GetBlockDOMsWithEmbedInBox` → `resolveEmbedContentInBox` (`kernel/model/block.go:976`). That function walks the tree for `NodeBlockQueryEmbed`, extracts the embed SQL, executes `sql.SelectBlocksRawStmtInBox(stmt, ...)`, builds `embedContents` from each matched block's content HTML, and inlines the result via `SetIALAttr("embed-content", ...)`. `resolveEmbedContentInBox` takes no `publishAccess` parameter and contains no filtering: `FilterEmbedBlocks`, `CheckBlockIdAccessableByPublishAccess`, `CheckPathAccessable`, `publishAccess` and `IsReadOnlyRoleContext` all return zero matches in that function and its call path. The top-level gate therefore passes on the requested block, and the response body carries content the reader has no access to. Embed queries in published documents routinely span the entire workspace by design, dashboard documents, "all my TODOs" aggregations, tag or attribute rollups. The reader does not need to construct anything: requesting an already-published document that contains such an embed is sufficient. If the publish frontend renders embedded blocks through this endpoint, the disclosure occurs passively during normal viewing of any published document containing an embed block. **Guarded sibling.** `getEmbedBlock` (`kernel/api/router.go:212`), which is also reader-reachable and returns embed query results, applies `model.FilterEmbedBlocksByPublishAccess(c, publishAccess, blocks)` for reader roles (`kernel/model/search.go:38`). The same class of data is filtered there and unfiltered here. **Scope note.** A prior review of `getBlockDOMsWithEmbed` confirmed that the per-id publish gate is correctly applied to the *requested* ids. That observation is accurate and is not in dispute, this report concerns the *embedded* blocks resolved downstream in `resolveEmbedContentInBox`, which are not covered by that gate. ### Proof of Concept Precondition: publish mode enabled (default port 6808); anonymous when `Publish.Auth.Enable` is `false`, otherwise any publish reader account. A published document containing an embed query whose results include at least one block in a non-published or password-protected document. ``` POST http://127.0.0.1:6808/api/block/getBlockDOMWithEmbed {"id":"<id of a published block containing an embed query>"} → 200 The returned DOM contains embed-content attributes carrying the content HTML of blocks in documents the reader has no publish access to. ``` Differential check against the filtered sibling, using the same reader session and the same underlying query: ``` POST http://127.0.0.1:6808/api/search/getEmbedBlock {"stmt":"<the same embed query>"} → 200, results filtered by FilterEmbedBlocksByPublishAccess ``` The filtered endpoint withholds the private blocks; the DOM endpoint returns their content. The plural route behaves identically for each requested id: ``` POST http://127.0.0.1:6808/api/block/getBlockDOMsWithEmbed {"ids":["<published block containing an embed query>"]} ``` ### Impact An anonymous reader in publish mode or any publish `RoleReader` can read the content of blocks in documents that are not published, are marked hidden or forbidden, or are protected by a publish password, by requesting a published block that transcludes them. Because embed queries in aggregation-style published documents commonly match across the whole workspace, the volume of exposed content is bounded only by wh

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass access controls and read sensitive content from protected or hidden documents. This leads to a critical confidentiality breach, exposing potentially sensitive or private information without any authorization.

Summary

CVE-2026-72795 describes a missing authorization check in SiYuan note-taking software prior to version 3.7.4. Specifically, the endpoints getBlockDOMWithEmbed and getBlockDOMsWithEmbed do not enforce publish access restrictions on embedded block content. As a result, an attacker can request published blocks containing embed queries and gain unauthorized read access to sensitive content, including password-protected or hidden documents. This vulnerability has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.2, indicating critical severity with network attack vector, no privileges required, and high impact on confidentiality.

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