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CVE-2023-37298

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-37298 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in joplin. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2023-37298 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.

Joplin Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-7grw-xfx6-qhx6
Published
Jun 30, 2023
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed

Blast Radius

1 pkg affected

Weekly download volume for affected packages — a proxy for how broadly this vulnerability is deployed.

joplinnpm
703downloads / week

Description

Joplin before 2.11.5 allows XSS via a USE element in an SVG document.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmjoplinall versions2.11.5

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for joplin. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.

  2. Fix

    Update joplin to 2.11.5 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2023-37298 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2023-37298 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.

Tailored to CVE-2023-37298. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Joplin before 2.11.5 allows XSS via a USE element in an SVG document.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

Is CVE-2023-37298 in your dependencies?

O3 detects CVE-2023-37298 across npm dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.