id: node-integration-enabled info: name: Electron Applications - Cross-Site Scripting & Remote Code Execution author: me9187 severity: critical description: | Electron Applications is susceptible to remote code execution by way of cross-site scripting via nodeIntegration by calling require('child_process').exec('COMMAND');. reference: - https://blog.yeswehack.com/yeswerhackers/exploitation/pentesting-electron-applications/ - https://book.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting/pentesting-web/xss-to-rce-electron-desktop-apps tags: electron,file,nodejs,xss file: - extensions: - all matchers: - type: word words: - "nodeIntegration: true" # digest: 4a0a0047304502204786705d88a14d1888a277cc5d93556cfec1f62f07c6b52fc67bd398eacad084022100d8b0127552cdfea68abfa470f367757cf4d7496dc287ac4826131928c2526233:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950