Cross-site Scripting in electron-pdf

Description

electron-pdf version 20.0.0 allows an external attacker to remotely obtain

arbitrary local files. This is possible because the application does not

validate the HTML content entered by the user.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 20.0.0

References

• GHSA-3jcv-5f9p-2f2p
• fluidattacks.com
• CVE-2024-1648
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• tRPC 11 WebSocket DoS Vulnerability - CVE-2025-43855
• DocsGPT Allows Remote Code Execution - CVE-2025-0868
• Signature Malleabillity in elliptic - CVE-2020-13822
• Joplin Vulnerable to Code Injection - CVE-2022-23340

Tags:

npm

electron-pdf