{"id":228547,"date":"2026-01-08T01:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/critical-jspdf-flaw-lets-hackers-steal-secrets-via-generated-pdfs"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:14:26","slug":"critical-jspdf-flaw-lets-hackers-steal-secrets-via-generated-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/critical-jspdf-flaw-lets-hackers-steal-secrets-via-generated-pdfs","title":{"rendered":"Critical jsPDF flaw lets hackers steal secrets via generated PDFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/critical-jspdf-flaw-lets-hackers-steal-secrets-via-generated-pdfs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jsPDF library for generating PDF documents in JavaScript applications is vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from the local filesystem by including it in generated files.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is a local file inclusion and path traversal that allows passing unsanitized paths to the file loading mechanism (loadFile) in jsPDF versions before 4.0. It is tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-68428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2025\u201368428<\/a> and received a severity score of 9.2.<\/p>\n<p>The jsPDF library is a widely adopted package with more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/package\/jspdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3.5 million weekly downloads<\/a> in the npm registry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jsPDF library for generating PDF documents in JavaScript applications is vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data from the local filesystem by including it in generated files. The flaw is a local file inclusion and path traversal that allows passing unsanitized paths to the file loading mechanism (loadFile) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}