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Plainpad is a self‑hosted note taking application.

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Features

  • Self‑hosted note taking
  • Runs on your own server with full data ownership
  • Docker‑based deployment for easy setup

Recent releases

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1.1.1 Security relevant
Security fixes
  • Privilege escalation vulnerability allowing authenticated users to grant themselves admin
  • Account enumeration and unauthenticated account-lockout abuse on password recovery endpoint
  • Unsafe ORDER BY injection on user and note list endpoints
Full changelog

Plainpad is a self hosted, open source note taking application that is very easy to setup on your server.

This is a stable release, you can use it in production environments and/or update your existing installations.

https://plainpad.org/

[1.1.1] - 2026-04-23

Fixed

  • Fix privilege-escalation vulnerability allowing any authenticated user to grant themselves admin (#138)
  • Prevent account enumeration and unauthenticated account-lockout abuse on the password recovery endpoint
  • Whitelist sortable columns and sort direction on user and note list endpoints to prevent unsafe ORDER BY input
  • Add form validation rules to the user modal

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Alex Tselegidis, Plainpad Creator

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Install & Platforms

Install via
docker
Platforms
windows linux

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