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MEDIUM6.5

PYSEC-2026-1707

JupyterLab vulnerable to SXSS in Markdown Preview

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-1707 — notebook: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'notebook>=7.0.7'

Details

### Impact

The vulnerability depends on user interaction by opening a malicious notebook with Markdown cells, or Markdown file using JupyterLab preview feature.

A malicious user can access any data that the attacked user has access to as well as perform arbitrary requests acting as the attacked user.

### Patches

JupyterLab v4.0.11 was patched.

### Workarounds

Users can either disable the table of contents extension by running:

```bash jupyter labextension disable @jupyterlab/toc-extension:registry ```

### References

Vulnerability reported via the [bug bounty program](https://app.intigriti.com/programs/jupyter/jupyter/detail) [sponsored by the European Commission](https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en) and hosted on the [Intigriti platform](https://www.intigriti.com/).

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Affected packages

PyPI/notebook
Introduced in: 7.0.0Fixed in: 7.0.7
Fixpip install --upgrade 'notebook>=7.0.7'

References