CVE-2026-44588: SiYuan: Electron Renderer RCE via decodeURIComponent-driven tooltip XSS in aria-label sink (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-34585)
The tooltip mouseover handler in app/src/block/popover.ts reads aria-label via getAttribute and passes it through decodeURIComponent before assigning to messageElement.innerHTML in app/src/dialog/tooltip.ts:41. The encoder used at the producer side, escapeAriaLabel in app/src/util/escape.ts:19-25, only handles HTML special characters (", ', <, literal <) — it leaves %XX URL-escapes untouched. So a doc title containing %3Cimg src=x onerror=...%3E round-trips through escapeAriaLabel and the HTML attribute layer unmodified. Then decodeURIComponent on the consumer side converts %3C to a literal < character (a real <, NOT a character reference). When that string is assigned to innerHTML, the HTML5 tokenizer enters TagOpenState on the literal <, parses the <img> element, and the onerror handler fires.
Because the renderer runs with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, webSecurity: false (app/electron/main.js:407-411), require('child_process') is reachable from the injected handler, escalating to arbitrary code execution.
Doc titles, AV column names + descriptions, AV select options, file-tree tooltips all reach this sink because they’re rendered into class="ariaLabel" elements with aria-label="${escapeAriaLabel(...)}". Doc title is the easiest plant — any user with create/rename access lands the payload, and the file survives .sy.zip round-trip without modification.
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