CVE-2025-53626 (GCVE-0-2025-53626)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-10 18:49
Modified
2025-07-10 19:08
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
  • CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
pdfme is a TypeScript-based PDF generator and React-based UI. The expression evaluation feature in pdfme 5.2.0 to 5.4.0 contains critical vulnerabilities allowing sandbox escape leading to XSS and prototype pollution attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.4.1.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pdfme/pdfme/commit/0dd54739acff2c249ed68c001a896bee38f0fd85
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/pdfme/pdfme/security/advisories/GHSA-54xv-94qv-2gfg
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/pdfme/pdfme/security/advisories/GHSA-54xv-94qv-2gfg
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pdfme pdfme Version: >= 5.2.0, < 5.4.1
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