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GHSA-wfv2-pwc8-crg5 jsPDF has HTML Injection in New Window paths

CRITICAL Published 2026-03-17 Modified 2026-03-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-31938
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
jspdf
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2026-03-17

Affected packages

• npm jspdf: < 4.2.1 → fixed in 4.2.1

Description

Impact User control of the `options` argument of the `output` function allows attackers to inject arbitrary HTML (such as scripts) into the browser context the created PDF is opened in. The affected overloads and options are: • `"pdfobjectnewwindow"`: the `pdfObjectUrl` option and the entire options object, which is JSON-serialized and included verbatim in the generated HTML-string. • `"pdfjsnewwindow"`: the `pdfJsUrl` and `filename` options • `"dataurlnewwindow"`: the `filename` option The vulnerability can be exploited in the following scenario: the attacker provides values for the output options, for example via a web interface. These values are then passed unsanitized (automatically or semi-automatically) to the attack victim. The victim creates and opens a PDF with the attack vector using one of the vulnerable method overloads inside their browser. The attacker can thus inject scripts that run in the victims browser context and can extract or modify secrets from this context. Example attack vector: ```js import { jsPDF } from 'jspdf'; const doc = new jsPDF(); const payload = 'x\">window.__n=1<iframe src="'; doc.output('pdfjsnewwindow', { filename: payload, pdfJsUrl: 'viewer.html' }); ``` Patches The vulnerability has been fixed in [email protected]. Workarounds Sanitize user input before passing it to the output method.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-31938 jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References